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CAMBRIDGE: 

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xi 



VENERABLE FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S. 

ARCHDEACON OP THE EAST RIDING 

OF THE 

COUNTY OF YORK, 

THE FOLLOWING WORK 

is, 

WITH HIS PERMISSION, 

INSCRIBED, 

BY HIS FAITHFUL AND OBLIGED SERVANT, 

THE AUTHOR. 



PREFACE. 



The attention of some of the most distinguished 
individuals, both in Church and State, has been 
drawn to the present condition of the Parochial 
Churches throughout the kingdom, and the libe- 
ral donations of pious individuals have, in many 
instances, co-operated with the provision recently 
made by the Legislature, in order to meet the 
wants of an increasing population, and to carry 
on repairs, which long neglect has accumulated 
upon the present generation. 

The object, therefore, of this and of similar 
publications which have lately appeared, is not 
merely to gratify the student of Architecture and 
Antiquities ; but also to call the attention of 
those, who are locally or officially connected with 
each particular church, to the expediency of their 
general improvement and restoration by every 
practicable means. It is a vain and idle excuse, 



VI PREFACE. 

too often originating in hostility or indifference 
to the cause, that since much is to be done, and 
we cannot do all that is required, therefore we 
are justified in doing nothing. At the same time 
it must be allowed, that a task of no ordinary 
difficulty has, in many cases, been imposed upon 
us by the negligence of our predecessors in not 
repairing, duly and regularly, the sacred edifices 
entrusted to their charge. 

The Church of Bridlington is under peculiar 
disadvantages in this respect. It was at the same 
time a parochial and a conventual Church, and, 
being appropriated to one of the richest monas- 
teries in Yorkshire, displayed, in the magnitude 
of its proportions and architectural decorations, 
a magnificence corresponding to the elevated rank 
of the ecclesiastical establishment to which it 
belonged. When, however, the Monastery was 
dissolved, its ample revenues were scattered with 
an unsparing hand; and in no similar instance, 
perhaps, was the wealth, which had been be- 
queathed for pious uses, torn from the Church 
with so little regard to secure a suitable provision 
for the future wants of the parish. 

Dining the existence of the Monastery the 
western part, or nave, of the ancient Priory 



PREFACE. Vll 

Church, was assigned to the use of the town, 
while the monks performed their devotions in 
the eastern part of the fabric* At the dissolu- 
tion, the western part of the ancient edifice was 
accordingly suffered to remain, and the rectorial 
tithes were sold to a layman, subject to the pay- 
ment of eight pounds a year to a Perpetual 
Curate, who should " perform divine service, and 
have the charge of souls within the parish." This 
remaining portion of the ancient Conventual 
Church, in its present condition, is calculated to 
excite mingled feelings of regret and admiration. 
Its original features may still be distinctly traced 
in spite of the neglect and oblivion to which they 
have been consigned for the space of three cen- 
turies ; but in order to put this beautiful speci- 
men of Gothic architecture in complete repair, 
by a judicious restoration, means would be re- 
quired which the Church of Bridlington no longer 
possesses. How far the voluntary contributions 
of the Parishioners, aided by a grant from the 
" Society for Building and Repairing Churches," 
might be capable of effecting this most desirable 

* " The scyd Church ys divided the on part for the Pryory 
and Covent, and the nether part for the Parysshe Church." 

Survey of Bridlington Priory, taken 32 Hen. VIII. 



Vlll PREFACE. 

object, the Author does not pretend to de- 
termine. 

Of the materials of the following work little 
can be said likely to be interesting to the gene- 
rality of readers : and to those who are familiar 
with the original sources of information common 
to this and similar publications, the few remarks 
which can be made offer nothing new. There 
are only two MS. volumes, — one an original, the 
other an abstract, if not a copy, — from which 
those eminent antiquarians Dugdale and Burton 
derived the chief part of their information re- 
specting the Priory of Bridlington : — the former 
of these MSS. is the Register of the Priory now 
in the possession of Sir William Ingilby, Bart. ; 
and the latter, the transcript of a Chartulary of the 
Priory, the same most probably which is enume- 
rated in Tanner's List of Records relating to 
this Monastery, and there entitled " Cartularium 
penes Ric. Malleverer Bar." These two sources 
of original information appear to have supplied 
materials for the notices of the Priory of Brid- 
lington in the Monasticon Anglicanum of Dug- 
dale, and the Monasticon Eboracense of Burton. 
To these may be added some additional materials 
for this history to be found in the shape of original 



PREFACE. IX 

letters, and other documents, deposited in the 
British Museum : in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : 
in the University Library, and in the Library of 
Trinity College, Cambridge ; or in the collections 
of private individuals. Of course the casual 
notices of this Monastery, in common with others, 
interspersed throughout the National Records, re- 
cently published, must not be omitted ; and, in 
particular, the Survey of Henry the Eighth's 
Commissioners, prior to the dissolution, preserved 
among the Records in the Chapter House, West- 
minster. There is scarcely any thing to be met 
with more recent than the works of Dugdale and 
Burton, as to the history of this Priory, except the 
scanty hints to be gleaned from the notice taken of 
the Town in some local topographical works, which 
repeat the same facts with little or no variation. 

The only work, except the present, which has 
been expressly devoted to an illustration, not, 
indeed, as in this case, of the Ecclesiastical only, 
but also of the Civil History of the Town, is a 
small volume published on the spot in 1821, and 
entitled, " Historical Sketches of Bridlington, by 
John Thompson." The author of this little work 
has the merit of being the first inhabitant of the 
place who endeavoured to illustrate and make 



\ PREFACE. 

known the antiquities of his native town, and 
the present work has been undertaken with a 
similar intention. It is but just, here to acknow- 
ledge, that the Author of the present work is in- 
debted to Mr. Thompson for the first intimation 
of the existence of the very interesting document 
published by Mr. Caley's kind permission in the 
Appendix, and that he is indebted to the book 
before alluded to for the knowledge of some facts. 
although in all cases the original authorities have 
been carefully consulted. 

To John Caley, Esq. F.S.A. the Author is in- 
debted for his liberality in furnishing Messrs. 
Stover, the engravers, with drawings of the 
Priory seals : — to Thomas Rickman. architect, for 
his liberality and kindness in looking over the 
architectural part of this work, and for several 
useful suggestions : — to the Rev. Rulkeley Ban- 
dinel, D.D. keeper of the Bodleian Library, for 
his very valuable assistance in decyphering the 
Dodsworth MSS :— to Walter Calverley Treve- 
lyan, Esq., oi' University College, Oxford, for 
presenting to this work the plate of the ancient 
sculptured Stone (Pi. ix.) originally engraved at 
his expence for the Transactions oi' the Anti- 
quarian Society at Newcastle:— to Sir W. Ingilby. 



PREFACE. , XI 

Bart, for permission to inspect the MS. Register 
of the Priory in his possession: — to Sir W. 
Strickland, Bart, and Archdeacon Wrangham, 
for much kind encouragement and assistance : — 
to Eustachius Strickland, Esq. of York, for a 
transcript of that part of the Torr MSS. which 
relates to Bridlington : — to Robert Nairne, Esq. 
and the Rev. W. Greenwood, of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, to the former for the researches made 
in the British Museum, and to the latter for the 
use of his MSS. collections respecting the mo- 
nastic orders : — and to David Taylor and George 
Hodgson, Esqrs., two of the Lords Trustees of 
the Manor of Bridlington, for some information 
from original papers in the Town Chest. 

The Author begs leave to return his most grate- 
ful acknowledgements for the encouragement 
which he has received in his undertaking from 
a very numerous list of subscribers, and to apolo- 
gize for the delay which has unavoidably attended 
the publication of the work. 



I'luisi'iY College, Cambridge, 
Jan. 1, 1831. 



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Abbott, Mr. T. E., Bridlington 

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Adderley, Thomas, Esq., London. L. P. 

Aldis, C. J. B., Esq., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge 

Aldridge, Miss, Beverley 

Allerston, Mr. J., Bridlington 

Allgood, Mr. Langley, Whitwick, Leicestershire 

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Barugh, Mr., Octon 

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Batley, Charles Harrison, Esq., late M.P. for Beverley. L. P. 

Bayne, W. J., Esq., M.D., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Bean, Mr. W., Leavening 

Beatson, Rev. B. W., M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Pembroke College, 

Cambridge. L. P. 
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Bell, Rev. John, D.D., Rector of Bainton, Yorkshire. L. P. 
Bell, John, Esq., Hull. L. P. 
Bell, Mr. P., Bridlington 
Beswick, Mr., Bridlington 

Bethell, Richard, Esq., M.P. for the County of York, Rise. L. P. 
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Residentiary of St. Paul's, London, and Rector of Shepton Mallet, 

Somersetshire. L. P. 
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Boissier, Rev. G. R., B.A., Chiddingstone, Kent 
Borlase, Rev. H., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
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Temple, London 
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Broadley, Miss, Sewerby House 

Brodie, P. B., Esq., Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. L. P. 
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Brown, Mr. W. Holtby, Scarborough. L. P. 

Brown, Nicholas, Esq., Somerset House, London. L. P. 

Brown, Mrs. L. P. 

Buckle, N. J. N., Esq., Downing College, Cambridge, 2 copies. L. P. 

Bullock, Mr. H., Bridlington Quay 

Bullock, Mr. John, Bridlington 

Bulmer, Rev. W., M.A., Vicar Choral in York Minster 

Burdass, Mr., Buckton. L. P. 

Cameron, Mr., Bridlington 

Campbell, W., Esq., M.D., Whitby. L. P. 

Campbell, Rev. C, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Cape, Rev. H., M.A., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Cape, Mr. T., Bridlington 

Cawood, Mr. Henry, York. L. P. 

Challis, Rev. James, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Champney, Mr. Alderman, York 

Chapman, Mr. W., Bridlington Quay 

Charlesworth, Rev. B., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Charnock, Rev. James, M.A., Bishopton Close, Ripon, Fellow of University 

College, Oxford. L. P. 
Chilton, Mrs., Whitby 
Clarke, Mrs., Lincoln. L. P. 
Clarkson, B., Esq., Kirkham Abbey. L. P. 
Coates, Mrs., Heslington Hall, York 

Cole, Mr. John, Bookseller, Scarborough, 4 S. P. and 1 L. P. 
Cole, Mr. George, Kirby Moorside 

Coltman, Rev. Joseph, M.A., Perpetual Curate of the Minster, Beverley 
Constable, Rev. Charles, Wassand. L. P. 
Cooke, Henry, Esq., Scarborough 
Cookson, A., Esq., M.D. L. P. 

Cooper, E. P., Esq., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Cooper, Mr. C. H., Cambridge 
Cordukes, Mr., Bridlington. L. P. 
Coverley, S., Esq., Bridlington 
Cox, R., Esq., Spondon, Derby. L. P. 

Cox, Richardson, Esq., B.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Cox, W. T., Esq., Spondon, Derby 
Cox, Rev. Edward, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge 
Cranswick, Mr. M., Bridlington 
Creeke, Mr. W. W., Cambridge. L. P. 
Creyke, The Misses, Marton. L. P. 
Croft, Charles, Esq., University College, Oxford. L. P. 



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Crosse, John, Esq., F.S.A., Hull. L. P. 
dimming, Rev. Professor, M.A., F.R.S., late Fellow of Trinity College. 

Cambridge. L. 1'. 
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Curtis. Rev. John, M.A., Head Master of the Grammar School, Ashbyde 

l.i Zouch 
Cust, Hon. and Rev, H. C, Canon of Windsor. L. I". 

Cuthbert, Rev. William, Doncaster 

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Palo, Mr. W., Bridlington 

Dallin, Rev. James, M. A., Vicar Choral in York Minster, and Vicar ol 

Rudston, 2 copies. L. P. 
Dallin, Rev. Robert, jun., Thwing. 1.. 1'. 

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Dalton, Rev. I.. M.A., Rector of Croft, near Darlington 
Davies, Geo., Esq., Scarborough 
Davison, G., Esq., Worcester College, Oxford. I.. P. 
Davison, Mr. R,, Bridlington 
Dawson. Miss M., Royds Hall, Wakefield, I.. P. 
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sor of Mathematics in the London University. I.. P, 
Dixon. Rev. W. 11.. M.A., Prebendary ofYork,and Vicai of Bishopsthorpe. 

L, P. 
Dor..;. Miss, Bridlington 

Drake, Rev. J., M.A., Vicar of Warmfield, Yorkshire 
Drake, Dr., North Frodingham 
Drummond, Rev. H., M.A., Trinitj College, Cambridge, Vicar of Feering, 

Essex I.. P. 
Duesbery, T., Esq., Beverley, 

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L. P 
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Espinasse, Robert, Esq., Barrister, Temple, London. 1.. P. 
Evans, Rev. li. W., M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, L.P. 
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Fenton, Miss, Boyhton 

Ferguson, E., F,s(|., Halifax 

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Fisher, Rev. J. 11., M.A., Fellow and TutorofTrinityColl, Cambridge. L.P. 

Fisher, T. II., Esq., Cambridge. I-. 1'. 

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Flower, Rev. VV.,.lnn., M.A., York 

Fojjambe, Thomas, Esq., Wakefield. L. P. 

Foord, Rev. H., M.A., Foxholes, near Scarborough. L. !'. 

Foord, Mr. J., Leavening 

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Forth, Mr. W., Bridlington 

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Cambridge. I>. P. 
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Gilhy, Rev. W. R., M.A., Vicar of St. Mary's, Beverley, and late Fellow of 

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Henson, Rev. Francis, B.D., Fellow ami Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, 

Cambridge. L. P. 
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Hio'srins, Charles, Esq., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge 
Higgins, E.T., Esq., Inner Temple, London 

Hildyard, Rev. W., M.A.. Fellow ami Tutor ofTrinity HaH, Cambridge. L.P. 
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Hoare, Henry Merrick, Esq., Ditto. L. P. 

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Hodgson, Rev. John, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Holdsworth, Mr. W., Bridlington Quay 

Holmes, Mr. Leonard, Bridlington 

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Holroyd, A. T., Esq., Christ's College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Hopper, Mrs., Bridlington, 2 copies 

Horsfall, Mr. A., Hull 

Howard, John Broadley, J^s<j. , Bridlington Quay 

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Hudson, Miss H., Beuingby Hall. L. P. 

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Hull, T., Esq., M.D., Beverley 

Hunter, Miss, Whitby 

Hustler, W., Esq., M.A., Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Registrar 

of the University. L. I'. 
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Jewitt, Mr. O., Duffield, Derby 

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JollifTe, (}. R., Esq.', St. John's College, Camhridge 
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Kay, Mr. Thomas, Bridlington 

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Kemplay, Mr. Christopher, St. John's Place. Leeds. L. P. 

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Derbyshire. L. P. 
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L. P. 
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Lincoln, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of. L. P. 

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Lamplugh, Mr. Thomas, Sen., Kilham 

Langdale, Mr., Bookseller, Ripon, 2 copies 

Law, Rev. William, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Lawton, George, Esq., York. L. P. 

Leatham, William, Esq., Heath, near Wakefield. L. P. 

Lee, Rev. J. P., B.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 

Linskill, Mr. John, Master of the Grammar School, Bridlington 

Linskill, Mr. William, Langtoft 

Lister, Miss, Hull Road Cottage, York 

Lloyd, Mrs., Acomb, York 

Lodge, Rev. John, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and 

Librarian of the University. L. P. 
Long, Rev. C, M.A., Horsham, Sussex 
Lothian, Rev. W., Doncaster 
Lowe, Mr. W., Whitwick, Leicestershire 
Lowrey, Robert, Esq., Bridlington. L. P. 
Luard, Major, Blyborough, Lincolnshire. L. P. 
Lumb, Rev. W. E., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Lutwidge, Charles, Esq., Hull. 1 S. P. and 1 L. P. 
Lyon, Mr. I., Leavening. 
Lyon, Mr. Craven, Bridlington 

MULGRAVE, THE RlGHT HONOURABLE EARL. Jv. P. 

MULGRAVE, THE RlGHT HONOURABLE COUNTESS. L. P. 

MlDDLETON, THE RlGHT HONOURABLE LORD VlSCOUNT, 6 copies. L. P. 

Macdonald, the Right Honourable Lord. L. P. 
Markham, the Venerable Robert, M.A., Archdeacon of York. L. P. 
Machell, Robert, Esq., Beverley 
Mackerill, Mr., Bridlington. L. P. 

Madan, the Rev. Spencer, D.D., Prebendary of Peterborough, and Rector 
of Ibstock, Leicestershire. L. P. 



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Mallory, Mr. G., Kilham. L. P. 

Marcus, Rev. Lewis, B.A., Queen's College, Cambridge 

Marshall, S., Esq., Bridlington Quay 

Martin, Capt., Cambridge. L. P. 

Mason, T., Esq., Copt Hewick, near Ripon 

Mason, Rev. William, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Mason, Mr. William, Printseller, St. Mary's Place, Cambridge. 2 copies 

Massingberd, P., Esq., Gunby Park, Lincolnshire. L. P. 

Mathew, J. M., Esq., Ashby de la Zouch. L. P. 

Maude, Francis, Esq., Hatfield Hall, Wakefield. L. P. 

Maude, John, Esq., Moor House, Wakefield 

Maw, Mr. John, Flamborough. L. P. 

Mayo, P. W., Esq., M.D., Bridlington Quay. L. P. 

Mayo, Herbert, Esq., Bridlington Quay. L. P. 

Mayo, Rev. Charles, B.D., Cheshunt, Hertfordshire 

Mayo, Charles E., Esq., Clare Hall, Cambridge 

Mellowes, Mr., London 

Mendham, Rev. J., M.A., Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire 

Merewether, Rev. F., M.A., Rector of Cole-Orton, and Vicar of Whitwick, 

Leicestershire. L. P. 
Metcalfe, Rev. F., M.A., Vicar of Righton 
Meux, Henry, Esq., Theobalds Park, Herts. L. P. 
Mills, J. R., Esq., York 

Mills, Rev. T. A., M.A., Vicar of Burton Agnes 
Mitton, Michael, Esq., Pontefract. L. P. 
Moon, Mr. G., Hull. L. P. 
Mosey, Misses, Bridlington 
Mortlock, W., Esq., Cambridge. L. P. 
Munby, Joseph, Esq., York. L. P. 

Musgrave, the Rev. Professor, M.A., Fell, of Trinity College.Cambridge. L.P. 
Myers, John, Esq., Beverley. L. P. 
Myres, Mr., Bridlington Quay. L. P. 

Nelthorpe, Sir Henry, Bart, Scawby, Lincolnshire. L. P. 

Nayler, Sir George, Knt. Garter King at Arms. L. P. 

Nairne, Rev. Charles, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Nairne, Robert, Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Nairne, Lawrence, Esq., Panama, South America. L. P. 

Naylor, Jeremiah, Esq., Wakefield. L. P. 

Neate, Rev. Arthur, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Rector of Alvescott, 

Oxfordshire. L. P. 
Nelson, Rev. John, B.D., Vicar Choral in Lincoln Minster ; Incumbent of 

St. Mark's, Lincoln ; Rector of Searby, Snarf'ord, and Wellingore, and 

Vicar of Ruskington, Lincolnshire. L. P. 



Wll LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

Nelthorpe, Mrs., South Ferriby, Lincolnshire. L. P. 
Newcastle upon Tyne, the Antiquarian Society of. L. P. 
Norris, Rev. F., B.A., Queen's College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Noyes, Miss, Lea, Lincolnshire. 

Offley, C, Esq., Uprield Lodge, Stroud, Gloucestershire. L. P. 
Ogle, Rev. John Furniss, M.A., Rector of Skirbeck, near Boston, Lin- 
colnshire. L. P. 
Oldfield, Mr. Alderman, York 

Outram, B. F., Esq., M.D., Hanover Square, London. L. P. 
Outram, Mrs., ditto. L. P. 

Oxley, Charles, Esq., Ripon. L. P. 

Peacock, Rev. G., M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Tutor, of Trinity College, 

Cambridge. L. P. 
Pashley, R., Esq., B.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 
Pearson, Arthur Hugh, Esq., Queen's College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Pease, Jos. R., Esq., Hessle Wood House, near Hull. L. P. 
Pedder, Miss, Brighton. L. P. 

Pcttiward, Rev. D., M.A., Vicar of Great Finborough, Suffolk. L. P. 
Phillimore, Mrs., Newberries, Herts. L. P. 
Phillimore. Miss, Kendalls Hall, Herts. L. P. 
Phillips, C. H., Esq., Hull 

Phillips, Mr. Thomas, Beadlam Grange, Hehnsley. L. P. 
Piddocke, Rev. John, M.A., Ashby de la Zouch. L. P. 
Pigott, G. G. Graham Foster, Esq., B.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge. L.P. 
Place, Rev. Joseph, MA., Loughborough 
Prickett, Robert, Esq., Harley Street. London. L. P. 
Prickett, Mrs., London. L. P. 
Prickett, Mrs. A., London. L. P. 
Prickett, Miss, London 
Prickett, (apt, York. L. P. 
Prickett, Josiah, Esq., Hull. L. 1'. 
Prickett, Marmaduke Thomas, Esq., Hull. L. F. 
Prickett, Miss, Hull 

Prickett, Marmaduke, Esq., Bridlington. L. P. 
Prickett, Miss, ditto. L. P. 
Prickett, Miss S., ditto. L. P. 
Prickett, Thomas, Esq., ditto. L. P. 
Prickett, Paul, Esq., London. L. P. 

Prickett, Robert, Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Pulling, Rev. W., M.A., F.L.S., Sidney Suss, x College, Cambridge. 

RADCMFiE.Rev. B.B., M.A., Vicar of Ishb) de la Zouch., and late Fellow 
of King's College, Cambridge. L. P. 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. XXlli 

Radclyflc, H. C, Esq., Pembroke College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Raikes, Robert, Jun. Esq., Hull 

Rarnsay, Marmaduke, Esq., M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, 

Cambridge. L. P. 
Ranson, Mr. T., Beverley. L. P. 

Rashdall, John, Esq., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Rawlins, John, Esq., Clarence Terrace, Regenfl Park 
Rayner, Mr. John., Bridlington 
Sea ion, Mr., Driffield. L. P. 

Reynard, Horner, Esq., Sunderlandwick Lodge. L. P. 
Reynard, Edward Horner, Esq., Sunderlandwick Lodge 
Reynard, Rev. W., M.A., Ripon 
Reynolds, Mrs., Whitby, 2 copies. L. P. 
Rhodes, G., Esq., S.C.L., Trinity Hall, Cambridge. L. P. 
Rhodes, Mr. R., Bridlington 

Richardson, Rev. W., M.A., Vicar of Ferry Fryston, Yorkshire. L. P. 
Richardson, Miss, Derby. L. P. 
Richardson, F. G., Esq., Lime House, London 
Richmond, II., Esq., B.A., Queen's College, Cambridge 
Rickaby, Charles, Esq., Bridlington Quay. L. P. 
Rickaby, Miss, Bridlington Quay. L. P. 
Rickman, Thomas, Architect, Birmingham. L. P. 

Riddell, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College. Cambridge. L. I'. 
Robinson, Rev. John, B.A., Hull 

liomilly, Rev. Joseph, M.A., Fellow oi' Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Roster, W. II., Esq., F.R.S., Gray's Inn, London. L. P. 

STBICKLAWD, Sir William, Bart., Boynton. L. P. 

Sykes, Sir Tatton, Bart., Sledmere. L. P. 

Sampson, Rev. George, Rector of Leven. L. P. 

Sandwith, EL, Esq., Bridlington. L. P. 

Sandwith, T., Esq., Beverley 

Sawden, Mr., Leeds 

Scotchburn, Mr., Driffield 

Sedgwick, Rev. Professor, M,A. F.R.S., FeUoW of Trinity College, 

Cambridge. L. P. 
Sedman, Mr., Bridlington 
Sedman, Mr. W., Jan., Leeds 
Sharp, Rev. S., M.A., Vicar of Wakefield 

Shoe)/, hanks, Rev. R,, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, L. P. 
Shelford, Rev. Thomas, B.D., Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, 

Cambridge. L. P. 
Shepherd, H. J., Esq., Beverley 
Silver. James, Esq., London. L. P. 



XXIV LIST Oh' SUBSCRIBERS. 

Simpson, Rev. Thomas, Vicar of Boynton and Carnaby 

Simpson, Rev. John Pemberton, M.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge. L.P. 

Sleath, Rev. W. B., D.D., Repton Priory, Derbyshire. L. P. 

Smedley, Rev. E. A., M.A.. Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge 

Smedley, Mr.. Bridlington Quay 

Smith, Edwin, Esq., Leeds. L. P. 

Smith, Miss, Newcastle upon Tyne 

Smith, Richard, Esq., Chancery Lane, London. L. P. 

Smith, Mr. Richard, Scwerby Field 

Smith, Rev. George, Incumbent of Bridlington. L. P. 

Smith, Edward, Esq., Fairy Hall, Eltham, Kent 

Smith, Mr. Elliot, Cambridge 

Smith, Mr. Stafford, Cambridge 

Smith, Mr. R. Jun., Bridlington. L. 1'. 

Soulsby, Christopher, Esq., Bessingby. L. P. 

Spence, Mr. T., Lund 

Spooner, Rev. J. B., M.A., Rector of Blyborough, Lincolnshire 

Spooner, Mrs., ditto 

St. Aubyn, Richard, Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

St. Quintin, William, Esq., Scampston Hall. L. P. 

Stables, Mr. James, Foston 

Stephenson, Mr. John, Octon Lodge 

Stephenson, Mr. John, Grammar School, Kilham 

Stephenson, Mr. J. Junr., Sherburn 

Steventon, Edwin, Esq., B.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Storer, Messrs., Engravers, Cambridge, 2 copies. L. P. 

Strickland, Walter, Esq., Cokethorp Park, Oxfordshire. L. P. 

Strickland, Eustachius, Esq., York. L. P. 

Strickland, Miss, Boynton 

Strutt, Mr. J., 8, Duke Street, St. .lames, London. L. P. 

Studholme, Rev. J., M.A., Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Sumner, G. Esq., Goodmansey, Beverley 

Suttaby, Rev. W., M.A., St John's College, Cambridge 

Sykes, Rev. Christopher, M.A.. Hector of Roos. L. P. 

Thorold, Sir John Haykord, Bart., Syston Park, Lincoln. L. P. 

Trevelyan, Sir John, Bart., Nettlecombe, Somerset. L. P. 

Taylor, Rev. Joseph, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Taylor, Bryan, Esq., Bridlington. L. P. 

Taylor, David, Esq., Bridlington 

Territt, William, Esq., L.L.D., Chilton Hall. Clare, Suffolk. L. P. 

Thackeray, F., Esq., M.D., Cambridge. L. P. 

Thompson, Mr. John, Bridlington 

Thompson, Mr. J.. York. L. P. 



LIST OP SUBSCRIBERS. XXV 

Thornton, W. D., Esq., Scarborough. L. P. 

Thorp, Rev. T., M. A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. L. I'. 

Thorpe, A., Esq., York. L. P. 

Thorpe, Rev. W., M.A., Merton College, Oxford 

Thurnall, A. W., Esq., Cambridge 

Todd, Rev. H. .)., M.A., F.S.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, and 

Rector of Settrington. L. P. 
Todd, Messrs., Booksellers, York. 4 S. P. and 1 L. P. 
Tomlinson, Mr. C, Derby 
Tottie, T. W., Esq., Leeds. L. P. 
Travis, VV., Esq., Scarborough 

Trevelyan, W. C, Esq., M.A., University College, Oxford 
Truman, Rev. Edward, Kilham. L. P. " 

Turner, Thomas, Esq., B.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Turner, Mr., Bookseller, Beverley 
Turnor, Lewis, Esq., Hertford. L. P. 
Tyson, M., Esq., B.A., Catharine Hall, Cambridge. L. P. 

Upton, J. S., Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. 1 S. P. and 1 L. P. 
Upton, Thomas Everard, Esq., Leeds. L. P. 
Usherwood, R., Esq., Whitby. L. P. 

Vane, Rev. John, M.A., Fellow of Dulwich College, Surrey. L. P. 
Vickerman, Mr. Thomas, Thwing. L. P. 

Wood, Sir Francis Lindley, Bart., 4 copies 

Wordsworth, the Rev. Christopher, D.D., Master of Trinity College, 
Cambridge. L. P. 

Wrangham, the Venerable Francis, M.A., F.R.S., Archdeacon of the 
East Riding of Yorkshire. L. P. 

Wakefield, Rev. J., M.A., Darley, Derby 

Walker, William Sidney, Esq., M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge. L. P. 

Walker, W. F., Esq., '27, Austin Friars, London. L. P. 

Walker, Mr., Bridlington 

Wallis, Edward, Esq., York 

Walmsley, Mrs., Bridlington Quay 

Ward, Thomas, Esq., Bridlington Quay. L. P. 

Wardale, Francis, Esq., Whitby. L. P 

Ware, Rev. Joseph, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Warren, Rev. Z. 8., M.A., Master of the Grammar School, Beverley 

Wasse, Rev. W., L.L.D., Hedon 

Watkin, Rev. R., Bridlington 

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Watkins, 1'., Esq., B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Watson, Mr. C. Sparkes, Cambridge. L. P. 

Watson, John, Esq., Pickering. L. P. 

Wand, Rev. S. W., M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. L. P. 

Webster, Rev. T., M.A., Vicar of Oakington, and late Fellow of Queen's 

College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Wellbeloved, Rev. Charles, York. L. P. 
Wetwan, Mr. G., Bridlington 

Wheatley, Joseph, Esq., Treetam, Rotherham. L. P. 

Whewell, Rev. Professor, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Col- 
lege, Cambridge. L. P. 
White, G. J. P., Esq., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge 
White, John, Esq., Doncaster. L. P. 
Whittaker, Charles, Esq., Hull. L. P. 
Williams, Mr., Kilham 
Williams, Miss Gregory, York 

Willis, Rev. R. C, Ravenhill Hall, near Scarborough, 2 copies. L. P. 
Wilson, Colonel James, M.P., Sneaton Castle, Whitby. L. P. 
Wilson, John, Esq., Gray's Inn, London. L. P. 
Wilson, Richard, Esq., Scarborough 
Wilson, Mr. Isaac, Bookseller, Hull, 2 copies 
Winn, Charles, Esq., Nostell Priory. L. P. 
Wollaston, Rev. H. J., B.A., Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 
Wolley, Commissioner, Somerset Place, London. L. P. 
Wood, J., Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge. L. P. 
Wood, Henry, Esq., Cropston, Leicestershire. L. P. 
Wood, Richard Warner, Esq.. The Newarke, Leicester. L. P. 
Wood, R. W. Kendall, Esq., B.A., Trinity Hall, Cambridge. L. P. 
Wood, Mr. J.. Land Surveyor, Scarborough 
Wood, Mr. John, Derby 
Woodall, John, Esq., Jun., Scarborough 

Worsley, Rev. Henry, D.D., Rector of Gatcombe, Isle of Wight. L. P. 
Wrangham, Rev. George W T alter, M.A., Rector of Thorp Bassett 
AVrangham, Digby Cayley, Esq., Foreign Office 
Wrangham, Mr. G., Bridlington. L. P. 
Wright, Rev. Godfrey, Bilham. 2 copies 
Wright, Mr. Joseph, Whitwick, Leicestershire. 

York, the Right Honourable the late Lord Mayor of, (John 

Dales, Esq.) L. P. 
Yarburgh, Major, Heslington Hall. York- L. P. 
Young, Rev. John, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. L- P- 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



PARE 

1 — 10 



CHAPTER I. 

Historical Description 11 — 37 

CHAPTER II. 

Architectural Description - 39 — 56 



Appendix ------- 59 — 127 



LIST OF PLATES. 



PLATE 

I. Priory Gate, Bridlington, with Church, as seen through it. 

II. Priory Gate, from side next Church. 

III. Priory Church, S. W. View. 

IV. Priory Church, N. E. View. 

V. Priory Church, Interior, west end. 

VI. West Front, S.W. door. 

VII. North Porch. 

VIII. Architectural Details. 

IX. Ancient Sculptured Stone. 

X. Ground Plan of the Church. 

XI. Priory Seals, &c. 

XII. Ancient Fonts. 

XIII. Filey and Flamborough Churches. 

XIV. Flambro' Rood loft, and monument of Sir Martin de la See. 
XV. Carnaby and Boynton Churches. 

XVI. Rudston Church, and Norman door, Kilham Church. 

XVII. Map of Bridlington and the Vicinity. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The ancient history of the English Church, as is well 
known to all who have studied the subject with any degree 
of attention, is intimately connected with the history of the 
monasteries. In many cases, however, as in that of which 
we are now about to treat, the history of the parochial 
church is actually incorporated with that of the monastery 
to which it was appropriated. It will therefore be neces- 
sary, for the information of general readers, to premise 
some brief remarks on the different monastic orders, and on 
the constitution of monastic establishments. 

To enter, indeed, into any detail of the rise and progress 
of monachism, a system of superstition, and self-imposed 
austerities, which has uniformly been supported and encou- 
raged by the Papal power, would lead us far beyond the 
limits of the present work. The reader who wishes for 
more extensive information on such a subject must be re- 
ferred to several works which have been expressly devoted 
to the description of the various monastic orders and rules 
either generally, or as they existed in this country anterior 
to the period of the Reformation.* 

* Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. vi. c. 37. Turner's 
Hist, of England, vol. v. c. 2. Fuller's Hist, of the Eng. Church, vol. vi. Bur- 
net's Hist, of the Reform. Fosbrooke's British Monachism. Burn's Ecclesi- 
astical Law, vol. ii. p. 515, and the Prefaces to Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- 
canum, Burton's Monasticon Eboracense, and Tanner's Notitia Monastica. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The system of monastic seclusion probably originated in 
imitation of the retired and severe mode of life adopted in 
the wilderness by the prophet Elijah under the Jewish, and 
by John the Baptist under the Christian Dispensation; 
while, in later times, the primitive Christians were often 
compelled by the terrible persecutions under the Roman 
emperors to seek in the solitude of the desert a refuge from 
the miseries inflicted on them by heathen cruelty and op- 
pression. At first, being few in number, they lived apart 
from each other as solitary hermits ; in time, however, the 
practice becoming more general, the solitaries associated 
together in fraternities under the direction of a superior, 
and thus the earliest monasteries were probably formed. 

Incredible was the increase and diffusion of the monkish 
spirit about the eighth century of the Christian era. The 
monks soon became a formidable party in the ecclesiastical 
state. They were styled Regulars, since each order had its 
rule, to which all the members were obliged to conform; 
and were thus distinguished from the secular or parochial 
clergy , who mixed more in the affairs of the world at large. 
Their pretensions to superior sanctity of life, and the op- 
portunities which they enjoyed for the pursuits of literature 
beyond the secular clergy, soon gave them a decided and 
preponderating influence over the minds of the uneducated 
laity. In a warlike and barbarous age, when the higher 
classes of society had little leisure or inclination for learned 
studies, and many of them, as well as all the lower orders, 
could neither read nor write, the libraries of the several 
convents were almost the sole depositaries of literature: 
and while the art of printing was unknown, the monks, some 
of whom were constantly employed in transcribing or illu- 
minating manuscripts, or compiling their registers and 
chronicles, were the only writers of the day. We must, 
therefore, revert to the state of learning in Europe at that 
period, and contrast it with the progress made in arts and 



INTRODUCTION. 3 

science during the last three centuries, in order to form a 

just estimate of the causes which in a great measure contri- 
buted to raise the monastic orders to that height of pros- 
perity and power which they formerly possessed.* Having 
made these few general remarks, we may now proceed to 
take a rapid survey of the monastic establishments in this 
kingdom, with the history of which the present object of 
these researches is more immediately concerned. 

It may fairly be concluded that Christianity was first 
introduced among the Britons by their Roman conquerors, f 
When, however, it was in a languishing state, owing to the 
departure of the Romans before A. D. 448, and the arrival 
of the idolatrous Saxons, A. D. 452, it was revived and re- 
established by missionaries from the Papal court. The in- 
troduction of monachism into Britain may therefore be 
dated from the period when those active emissaries, Au- 
gustine and Paulinus, who were both monks, landed on the 
British shores, and finally established the metropolitan 
churches of Canterbury, A. D. 50D, and York, A. D. 62.5. 

The Benedictine rule was at this time almost universally 
prevalent among the European monks. It had been framed 
in the sixth century for the use of the western church by 
St. Benedict, a native of Italy, upon the basis of those by 
which the monasteries in the East had long been governed. 
This order of monks, the oldest and most celebrated in 
Europe, appears to have been the only one which was 

* Sec; Robertson'8 Introduction to the History of Charles the Fifth, 
The revival of learning, the invention of printing, and the Reformation of 
religion were nearly contemporaneous events. 

f " Tertullian and Origen speak of the conversion of the Britons to Chris- 
tianity in the infancy of the church, and that they were qualified before by 
their Druids for that purpose ; who always taught them to believe there was 
but one God. Gildas speaks of the introduction of Christianity into Britain 
in the earliest times, and Chrysostom and St. Jerome too." — CaMDEI 
See Bede Eccl. Hist. lib. i. cap. 30. Parker de Antiq. Eccl. Angl. Usher, 
Antiq. Brit. cap. 3. p. 20. 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

introduced into this country prior to the Norman con- 
quest. 

The monasteries and nunneries belonging to the Bene- 
dictine order in the ancient kingdom of Northumbria, 
which was nearly the same in extent with the archiepiscopal 
province of York, seem to have been overwhelmed along 
with the churches in one common ruin by the Danish and 
Norman invasions, and to have remained in this condition, 
with few exceptions,* till the reign of Henry the First, 
A. D. 1 100. At this time the king, the nobility, and the 
nation at large, displayed a general determination to repair 
the injuries which the ecclesiastics and the possessions of 
the church had suffered during those great national revolu- 
tions which had so recently subsided. So great was the 
zeal shown by the English people in the cause, that within 
150 years, from A.D. 1066, to the reign of Henry the 
Third, A. D. 1216, there were founded and refounded no 
less than 476 abbies and priories. Several new orders of 
Religious were brought into England in the time of Henry 
the First, — the Cistercians, the monks of Grandmont, the 
Augustine canons, the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, and 
the Knights Hospitallers. Three new orders followed in the 
succeeding reign : the Knights Templars, and the Praemon- 
stratensian and Gilbertine canons. Soon after came the 
Carthusians, and the two classes of mendicant friars, the 
Dominicans and Franciscans. Such were the principal 
monastic orders in England. 

We have already observed that the clergy were divided 
into seculars and regulars. The latter were of two kinds, 
monks and canons ; and of these the most celebrated were 
the canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. f Al- 
though they were a less strict sort of religious than the 



* Selby Abbey was founded by the Conqueror, 
t Bishop of Hippo, in Africa, A. D. 395. 



INTRODUCTION. O 

monks, yet they lived together under one roof, had a 
common chapel, dormitory, and refectory ; were obliged to 
obey their superior, and to observe the statutes of their 
order. The dress of the Augustine canons consisted of a 
long black cassock, over which was a white rochet, with a 
black cloak and hood, whence they were sometimes called 
" Black Canons." They also wore caps on their heads in- 
stead of the monkish cowl, and suffered their beards to 
grow, whereas the monks were always shaven. 

In every monastery the superior was styled abbot, or 
prior ; the latter was the appellation by which the superior 
of a society of Augustine canons was always distinguished. 
Many of the abbots were mitred and sat in Parliament, 
being little inferior in rank to the bishops themselves. In 
all the greater monasteries they were styled lord abbot and 
lord prior. They carried the pastoral staff in the right 
hand, the bishops in the left. 

Next under the prior in every priory was the subprior, 
who assisted the prior while present, and acted in his stead 
when absent. 

The other officers belonging to every monastery were the 
praecentor, who presided over the performance of the choir 
service, and kept the register ; the sacrist, who took care of 
the plate and vestments belonging to the church, and of the 
burial of the dead ; the almoner, who distributed alms daily 
to the poor at the gate of the convent ; the hospitaller, who 
entertained strangers ; the bursar, who managed the revenue 
of the convent ; the master of the works, who took charge 
of the repairs of the fabric ; the chamberlain, who had 
the care of the dormitory ; the cellarer, who looked after 
the provisions ; the refectioner, who superintended the 
refectory ; the infirmarer, who attended to the wants of 
the sick. There were also the cook, gardener, and 
porter. 

The various buildings of a monastery need not be enu- 



b INTRODUCTION. 

oierated here, the reader being referred to the architec- 
tural part of the following work. For it is to be observed, 
that although the gate-house and the nave of the priory 
church are now the principal remains of the Priory of Brid- 
lington, yet in a paper published a few years ago in the 
Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries,* the inventory 
taken by Henry the Eighth's commissioners of the buildings 
of this priory immediately before the dissolution, was se- 
lected from among many others as affording the most accu- 
rate description of the kind now extant. At the same time 
it must be regretted that few vestiges now remain of what is 
there described. Perhaps Fountains Abbey, in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, is the most complete specimen, as a 
ruin, in the kingdom. The church of the monastery is 
nearly entire as to the walls, but the roof is quite gone. 
The chapter house, court chamber over the kitchen, the 
refectory, the cloisters with the dormitory over them, and 
the abbot's lodge, at a small distance from the main build- 
ing, are still in a wonderfully perfect condition. 

Some striking points of resemblance may still be traced 
between the old monastic establishments, and the colleges 
in the two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. We 
may add the case of a dean, subdean, and prebendaries, 
residing within the precincts of our cathedral and collegiate 
churches. Both these societies, from being originally mo- 
nastic, were improved and altered at the Reformation, but 
yet retain many vestiges of their original constitution, and 
may be mentioned as popular illustrations in this country of 
the establishments we have endeavoured to describe. 

The monasteries in Yorkshire, which were the most 
wealthy, their revenues being considerably more than 200/. 
per annum, (which was the average income of what were 
termed the lesser monasteries,) were the following : viz., of 

• See Irchaologia, Vol. xix. Art. 30. 



INTRODUCTION, / 

the Benedictines, St. Mary's, York, 1550/., per annum ; 
Selby, 720/., and Whitby, 437/.; of the Cistercians, Foun- 
tains, 998/., and Kirkstal, 329/. Of the Canons Regular of 
the order of St. Augustine there were about 175 houses in 
England and Wales. Of these seven were in Yorkshire : 
viz., Nostel, Gisburgh, Newburgh, Kirkham, Bridlington, 
Bolton and Warter, the richest being Gisburgh, 628/. ; 
Bridlington, 547/. ; Nostel, 492/. ; and Newburgh, 367/. 
Thus much as to the ancient state of the English mo- 
nasteries. 

Before we close these introductory remarks, a few ob- 
servations may be made upon the change which has been 
produced in the revenues of many of our parochial churches 
owing to the dissolution of the monastery to which they 
were formerly appropriated. When a monastery was si- 
tuated like Fountains Abbey, in conformity with the ori- 
ginal destination of such establishments, in a sequestered 
spot remote from the habitations of men, the church, being 
resorted to only by the monks themselves, and by the pil- 
grims, who came to present their offerings at the shrine of 
some favorite saint, ceased to be used for the purposes of 
public worship, when the fraternity of monks was dispersed, 
and the efficacy of relics discredited. In such cases it 
shared the fate of the other buildings of the monastery, 
and now serves only as a picturesque ruin to afford ma- 
terials for the investigation of the antiquary or the archi- 
tect. But when a monastery was situated within the pre- 
cincts of a town, as is the case at Bridlington, and when the 
parochial church was appropriated to it, the prior and the 
convent became virtually the rector of the parish, and in the 
spoliation of their revenues no due reservation was made for 
the adequate maintenance of the future officiating minister 
of the parish church.* Nor was this the only inconvenience 

* Sec the Bishop of Lincoln's Charge in 1827. p. 7. 



8 INTRODUCTION. 

resulting from such a mode of procedure. It generally 
happened that in the immediate vicinity of the great con- 
ventual church of the town, the parochial churches of the 
villages had been appropriated for the support of the mo- 
nastery. In these cases the monks enjoyed the rectorial 
tithes, and the church was served by a stipendiary curate, 
or by < ne of the brethren of the monastery. In some of the 
surrounding hamlets there were only chapels dependent 
upon the church of the monastery as their mother church ; 
and these, as we might naturally conclude, could not but 
suffer most severely from its spoliation. 

When on the confiscation of the monastic estates the rec- 
torial tithes of all such churches were seized by the crown, 
they were usually granted or leased out at an easy rate to 
court favorites among the laity, subject to the payment of 
an annual stipend to a person generally nominated by the 
bishop of the diocese, and called a perpetual curate. 
Owing to the vast increase of the value of land since the 
period of which we are speaking, while these money-pay- 
ments remained fixed, it is quite plain how unlikely such a 
measure was to secure the just rights and privileges of the 
reformed church, and to provide for the comfort and re- 
spectability of the clergy, to whose charge such parishes 
were allotted.* In fact, this measure has ever been a source 
of regret to some of the best and wisest, friends of the esta- 
blished church. Cranmer, and Parker, and Spelman, and 
Herbert, and Burnet laboured, each in their day, as far as 
they could, to remedy its defects, and to provide against 
the evils which it has introduced. But though much has 

* One thing greatly to be lamented is, that in the hurry of the dissolu- 
tion better provision was not made for the performance of divine offices in 
such churches as had been appropriated to the monasteries, which both the 
ministers and parishioners of those places suffer for to this day, and is 
justly accounted a scandal to our Reformation. — Bum's Eccl. Law, vol. ii. 
p. 544. 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

been effected by their pious endeavours, yet a great deal 
more remains to be done before the church can be rescued 
from the disabilities under which it lies at present, owing 
to these causes, as will be most clearly instanced in the fol- 
lowing history. 

It remains only to say a few words upon the state in 
which our parochial churches exist at present ; and it is 
a fact capable of more or less proof in every diocese 
throughout the kingdom, that the churches need more 
than ordinary attention to remedy the consequences of long 
continued negligence on the part of their appointed guar- 
dians.* These, as is well known, are the archdeacon, the 
rural dean, the clergyman, and the churchwardens; and 
if the two former, instead of declining to interfere, would in 
all cases exercise the superintending and directing power 
committed to them by the church, we might still hope, 
from what has already been effected, to see these beautiful 
monuments of gothic architecture, which have been be- 
queathed to us by our ancestors, transmitted to posterity in 
a tolerable state of preservation. When, indeed, as in the 
case now before us, the parochial church has been formerly 
an appendage to some rich monastery, the spacious edifice 
effected and kept in repair by the help of those large funds 
of which the dissolution deprived it, has often been dis- 
figured or dilapidated through the inadequate and scanty 
repairs which could be afforded from the resources of mo- 
dern church rates. From the same cause the neighbouring 
churches and chapels, which derived their existence and 
support from the convent, have been suffered to fall into 
decay, or have been sometimes altogether disused. The 
day is, indeed, gone by when liberal grants were made to 
the church for the ?;ood of the soul of the donor; but the 



* See Introduction to an interesting work, entitled, " Note* on th< Cam- 
bridgeshire Churches." 



10 INTRODUCTION. 

influence of more rational motives surely now miijht be 
sufficient to induce all lovers of our church to show their 
regard for the places of public worship by contributing 
largely to their repairs. The address of the prophet to the 
Jewish people when their temple was in ruins, may with 
equal justice be applied to the Christian population of our 
land, and especially to the wealthier members of our com- 
munion. "Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled 
houses, and the Lord's house not regarded!" The language 
of the venerable compilers of our Homilies is too strikingly 
applicable not to be quoted in conclusion, " If ye have 
any reverence for the service of God, — if ye have any 
common honesty. — if ye have any conscience in keeping of 
necessarv and godly ordinances, keep your churches in good 
repair, whereby ye shall not only please God. and deserve 
his manifold blessings, but also deserve the good report o\^ 
all godly people.** 



BRIDLINGTON 
PRIORY CHURCH 



CHAPTER I. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

Bridlington, or Burlington, is situated in the East Riding 
of Yorkshire, about midway between Beverley and Scarbo- 
rough, giving name to the bay of which the promontory called 
Flamborough Head forms the northern extremity. This 
promontory, which runs out into the sea for a considerable 
distance, and is one of the most striking features in our east- 
ern coast, is formed by the termination at this point of the 
ridge of chalk, of which the hills called the Yorkshire Wolds 
are composed. Many circumstances combine to prove the ex- 
istence of a Roman station at or near the place, among which 
the vestiges of a Roman road, leading from York across the 
Wolds in the direction of the villages of Sledmere and Rud- 
stone ; and the ditch and mound of earth which intersect 
the promontory at its conjunction with the main-land are not 
the least remarkable. The latter, however, has obtained the 
name of Danes Dyke, and the name of the Danish Tower 
has also been given to the remains of a castle at Flamborough. 



12 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

There can be no question that the Danes succeeded to the 
settlements of the Romans, for there is abundant evidence 
to show that this part of the coast was a favorite landing 
place with them. 

In the absence of all written records on the subject it is 
useless to carry our inquiries respecting the ecclesiastical 
history of the place higher than the Norman Conquest. 
From the famous survey of Doomsday Book,* taken soon 
after by order of the Conqueror, it appears that a church was 
then in existence at Bridlington. In the survey of the 
monastic buildings, taken before the dissolution, mention is 
made of a building on the south side of the monastery, used 
by the prior and convent as a bakehouse and brewhouse; 
which, according to tradition, was some time a nunnery. 
The bakehouse, we are informed, was the body of the church, 
the roof being covered with slate and the aisles with lead, and 
adjoining to it eastward, where the choir had been, was the 
brewhouse covered with lead. This fact warrants us in con- 
jecturing that a convent had existed in the place prior to the 
conquest, which was probably destroyed in the general ruin 
brought upon the religious houses north of the Humber by the 
incursions and ravages of the Danes. There is no indication 
whatever in the annals of the Priory that such an establish- 
ment ever existed along with it. The most probable suppo- 
sition therefore seems to be this, that the parish church 
mentioned to have existed at the time of the Doomsday 
survey had been appropriated to the nunnery, which would 
be a Saxon foundation ; and that in after times this church 
was used by the canons till their increasing wealth enabled 
them to build the present more spacious edifice. 

The manor of Bridlington, with other extensive possessions 
in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, was granted by William the 
Conqueror to Gilbert de Gant, or Gaunt,f one of the Flemish 

* See Appendix B. t See Appendix C. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 13 

nobility, nearly related to him, by whom he was accompanied 
in his expedition to England. The property thus acquired 
descended to his son Walter de Gant, to whose pious muni- 
ficence the Priory of Bridlington owed its existence. Early in 
the reign of Henry the First, as appears by the foundation 
charter, and from the fact that the canons regular of the 
order of St. Augustine, to which the monastery belonged, 
were not introduced into England at an earlier period, this 
nobleman resolved upon endowing the church of St. Mary 
of Bridlington with revenues for the maintenance of a body 
of canons, whose precise number is not ascertained. The 
design of the founder will be best illustrated by the terms of 
the charter, a translation of which is subjoined, the Latin 
being also given in the Appendix,* as copied by Dugdale in 
the Monasticon Anglicanum, from the register of the Priory, 
which has long been in the possession of the Ingilby family 
of Ripley, in Yorkshire.! The charter is as follows: "I, 
Walter de Gant, do hereby declare to all faithful sons of holy 
church, that I have established canons regular in the church 
of St. Mary of Bridlington, by the authority and consent of 
king Henry, for the good of his soul, and the souls of his 
father and mother, and the souls of my father and mother, 
and my own soul, and the souls of my friends. I yield 
therefore to the same church, and to its ministers, whatever 
I am possessed of in the same township, viz : thirteen caru- 
cates of land, together with the mills, which are adjacent to 
the same land ; I yield to the church those lands also, which 
my vassals have themselves given, viz : William, my constable, 
one carucate of land in Bessingby : Forno, two oxgangs in 
the same township : Machernus, two oxgangs in Hilderthorp: 
Ralph Buck, and Joceline his son, gave two oxgangs in 
Eston : Ralph gave four oxgangs in Grindal : Gozo, with 
the permission of his son Alan, gave four oxgangs in 

* See Appendix D. f See Appendix A. 



14 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

Buckton : Malger, four oxgangs in Righton. And, moreover, 
I have given to the same church, and to its ministers, the 
canons, the church of Edenham, and another of Witham, 
and half the church oi' South Ferriby, and the church of 
Filey, with one mill : and the church of Swaldale ; I grant 
also the church of Willoughby, and another of Ganton ; 
which Adelard the hunter gave, with the permission of his 
son Henry. All these lands and churches, together with the 
lands which are adjacent to them, I grant to them free and 
quit from all 'geld:' and all customs, except • kimiVgeld,' 
viz: ' dane-geld.'* Witnesses, Thurstan, archbishop of 
York; Alan de Percy ; Eustace, son of John: Jordan Pagnel ; 
William, the constable: Lambert, the constable; William 
de Mundaville; Ralph de Neville ; William de Percy ; Ralph 
de Grindal ; and Ralph his son : Goceline Buck : Malger 
deErghom ; Winumd. the chaplain : Richard, the butler, and 
Girard his brother : Robert de Ropesle: Walter de Cake." 

The following charter of ting Henry the First, confirming 
the grant of the founder, is also published by Dugdale : 
the Latin original will be found in the Appendix.! 

'•"In the name of the Father, and of the Son. and of the 
Holy Ghost. Amen. Henry, by the grace of God, king of 
England, to the archbishops, bishops, princes, barons, and to 
the whole oi' the faithful clergy and laity in all England, 
Franks and Audi, as well present, as to come, greeting. 
Since we have received from the majesty on high the lofty 
estate oi' kingl\ power to this end that we should exercise 
our sway both justly and mercifully in the church offisod, it 
hath seemed good to us. that it should not only be protected 
under our safeguard and defence from the malice and calumny 
of its adversaries, but also should be encouraged in the 
sustenance of its necessities by the liberality of our gilt 
But chiefly ought we so to do to those, who. submitting to a 

Lppe&dis K. \ See Appendix D. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 15 

voluntary poverty, have determined to serve the Lord ; that, 
according to the Apostle ' their need may be supplied out of 
our abundance ; ' and we, by their interposition, may be re- 
ceived into eternal habitations. We do therefore grant, 
and under the warrant and attestation of this our present 
charter, do confirm to the church of St. Mary of Bridlington, 
and to the canons regular serving the Lord in the same place, 
two carucates of land of my own demesne, of which one and 
a half is in Eston, and a half in Hilderthorp, free and quit 
of all 'geld' and all customs. Moreover, the rest of the 
donations, which have been made by Walter de Gaunt, 
and by Jordan Paganel, and by other barons and vassals of 
mine to the aforesaid church, and are enumerated in the 
page of this our charter, we concede, and by the authority of 
the same charter do confirm," &c. 

Here follows a recitation of the several grants contained 
in the foundation charter, to which the reader is therefore 
referred. 

The bull of Pope Calixtus the Second, who ruled from 
A. D. 1119, to A. D. 1124, confirming to Guikeman, the 
first prior, and to the canons, all the grants of the estates 
then given to them, has not been published by Dugdale, but 
is referred to by Burton. It was copied by the author from 
a copious abstract of a chartulary of the Priory, preserved 
among the valuable collection of Roger Dodsworth's manu- 
scripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.* 

" Calixtus, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to 
Guikeman the prior, and to the brethren in the church of 
St. Mary, at Bridlington, professed regulars, as well present 
as to come, for ever. The Lord by his prophet commanded 
the inhabitants of the land of the south to go to meet the 
fugitive with bread, f We, therefore, children beloved in 
Christ, willingly receive you fleeing from the world, and 

* See Appendix I). f Isaiah xxi. 14. Lowth's Translation. 



16 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

assenting to your requests, (made through our venerable 
brother Thurstan, archbishop of York,) by the grace of the 
Holy Spirit, comfort you with the protection of the Apos- 
tolic See. For by the authority of the present privilege we 
confirm the state of canonical life, which ye have professed 
according to the rule of the blessed Augustine, and declare 
it to be unlawful for any one, after having made such pro- 
fession, to have any private possession, or to depart from the 
close without the leave of the prior or chapter. Moreover, 
we establish you and your successors upon their continuing 
in the observance of the same religious ceremonies, in the 
possession of every thing which you seem at present lawfully to 
possess for the support of your common maintenance. We 
decree also, that all those things, which in future you may 
be able to obtain by the concession of pontiff's, by the liberality 
of princes, by the oblations of the faithful, or by any other just 
methods, be for ever preserved quiet and entire, to profit the 
various uses of those by whose support and guidance they have 
been obtained. Let no man, therefore, on any account, be at 
liberty wantonly to disturb the same church, or to take away 
aught of its possessions, or having taken them away to retain 
them, to diminish them, or to harass it (the church) by 
violent exactions. But if any one, which God forbid, 
shall dare to act in opposition to this our decree, let him run 
the risque of losing his dignity and office, or be punished 
with the sentence of excommunication, unless he atone for 
his presumption by a proper compensation. But whosoever 
shall be careful to patronize the same place, and the servants 
of the Lord in it, and to honour them with his substance, on 
him be the blessing and grace of Almighty God, and his 
Apostles, Amen." 

These three charters, in which the Priory of Bridlington 
is established, according to the usual custom on such occa- 
sions, by the united sanction of the Pope, the King, and the 
Founder, have been translated at length, and are here in- 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 1/ 

sorted, as it is hoped they will not be found deficient in 
interest by the general reader. 

From the statement given in Doomsday Book, it appears 
that the Manor of Bridlington contained at this time thirteen 
carucates of taxable land, and a church, so that by the terms 
of the charter, both the manor and the rectory were granted 
by the noble founder to the use of the prior and convent. 
Owing to this appropriation of the parochial church to the 
use of the canons, the magnificent structure which the 
enlarged means of the convent afterwards enabled them to 
erect was divided, the choir being used by the prior and 
convent, and the nave by the inhabitants of the town. 
Hence, at the dissolution, this last-mentioned portion of the 
original edifice was left standing, and still continues to be 
used as the parish church. Besides the charter of con- 
firmation already quoted, Henry the First, by another charter, 
granted to the prior and convent a full and complete civil 
jurisdiction within the manor and township of Bridlington. 
In a large chamber over the ancient gate-house of the priory, 
now called the Bayle Gate, the prior held his courts, and in 
the lower part of the same building, besides the porter's lodge, 
were cells for the confinement of offenders within the liberty 
of the town, one of which is still used as ' the Kit-cote.' 
This gate-house, or court-house, as it may be called, seems 
to have been considered after the dissolution as the property 
of the lord of the manor, and is accordingly now used as a 
town hall, the manor formerly belonging to the prior and 
convent, having passed by the purchase in the time of 
Charles the First into the hands of certain of the inhabitants 
of Bridlington. For the same reason the arms of the priory 
have been assumed as the arms of the town. They are given 
in Bishop Tanner's laborious and useful compilation, the 
Notitia Monastica, and are per pale, sable, and argent, three 
Roman B's counterchanged, two, and one. The simplicity 
of the colours and device, marks a very high antiquity. 



18 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

The letter B perhaps has reference to the name of the town, 
and to its being originally a Roman station, and the num- 
ber — three, was frequently chosen in similar instances to 
denote, it is said, the Trinity. Thus the arms of the Abbey 
of Fountains are charged with three horse-shoes, those of St. 
Mary at York with three swans, and those of Whitby Abbey 
with three coiled snakes, the snake-si ones, or ammonites, with 
which part, of the coast abounds, being traditionally reported 
to have been originally snakes turned into stones by St. Hilda. 

The common seal of this priory exhibits two figures seated 
under a canopy, the one male, the other female. It is an 
imperfect impression on green wax attached to an instru- 
ment deposited among the Harleian Charters in the British 
Museum.* To the same instrument is also attached a counter 
seal, which has upon it the blessed Virgin crowned, with 
the Divine Infant in her arms. 

The immense possessions acquired by this monastery, 
have been enumerated at great length by Burton, who men- 
tions the townships in which they were situated, and the 
names of the respective donors. Whatever may be the use 
of such collections for reference on particular occasions, they 
possess in detail so little interest for general readers, that we 
shall refer those who are desirous of more extensive informa- 
tion to the work above referred to, and content ourselves 
with noticing the most important particulars. At the 
time when the monastery was at the height of its pros- 
perity and grandeur, its possessions were of amazing 
extent. There was hardly a town or village in the rural 
deanery of Dykering, in which it is situated, where it had 
not obtained lands, or the rectory and manor, sometimes one, 
sometimes the other, or all united. Indeed, generally 
throughout the whole extent of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 
its property was scattered, and intermixed with that of other 
religious houses. 

- See Hate XI.. and Appendix T>. No. 71. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 19 

A charter of Henry the Second, in the Appendix to this 
account,* will afford an idea of the extent of the possessions 
of the monastery towards the close of the first century after 
its foundation. Among these, the following churches in the 
deanery of Dykering are stated to have been appropriated to 
the convent at an early period. The rectory of Filey was 
the gift of the founder, Walter de Gant ; and William Fitz- 
Nigel soon after added the rectory of Flamborough. The 
rectory of Boynton was appropriated by Galfrid, the steward; 
and the rectory of Carnaby by Robert de Percy. The 
rectories of Ganton and Willoughby were added by Adelard, 
the hunter. Considerable possessions, if not the rights of 
the manors, were granted about the same time by various 
donors, in the villages of Eston, Hilderthorp and Willes- 
thorp, Auburn, Bessingby, Speeton, Grindal, Fraisthorp, 
Sewerby and Marton, Buckton, Righton, Bempton, Beeford 
and Thwing. In these villages and hamlets, as no mention 
occurs of church or chapel being in existence at the time 
when they first came into the hands of the ecclesiastics, we 
may fairly suppose them to have been the founders of the 
several chapels subsequently erected for the use of the peo- 
ple in several of these parishes ; all, however, dependent on 
the parent church of the monastery. 

The Priory of Bridlington, as we have seen, was founded in 
the reign of Henry the First, and the next occurrence in order 
of time, which demands our attention, is an act of his successor 
Stephen, by whom a charter was granted to the monastery, 
in which,t after stating " that out of his abundant favor, and 
with the consent of his Council, and in relief of the Prior, 
and Canons, and their House, which is situated upon the 
sea coast," he was willing to grant them various privileges, 
which are enumerated in the charter, the King concedes 

* See Appendix D. No. S. 

t Copied from the Exemplification of Charters formerly granted to Brid- 
lington Priory, made iti the time of Charles the First. 

c -2 



20 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

to them " the Port and Harbour oi* Bridlington, with all 
kinds of wreck of the sea which shall in future happen or 
issue in all places within the Dykes called Earl Dyke, and 
Flaynburgh Dyke." Dugdale has published a mandate 
from the same king, enjoining the sheriff of Yorkshire to 
see that the above charter be duly carried into effect, and 
commanding him to allow the prior of Bridlington well and 
peaceably to have and hold his port of Bridlington, as 
Walter de Gant, and Gilbert, his father, formerly held the 
same.* 

Gilbert de Gant, the eldest son of the founder, was con- 
temporary with King Stephen, and obtained the title of 
Earl of Lincoln in right of his wife. He was baptized and 
educated in the Priory, and had so great a regard for its 
welfare, that he not only confirmed all the grants of Walter 
de Gant, his father, but was himself also very liberal in his 
donations. A curious charter has been preserved,! in which 
he directs his body to be buried in the Priory Church ; and 
declares, that if by the grace of God he should ever be 
induced to quit the vanities of the world for the retirement 
of the cloister, he would assume the habit of an Augustine 
canon, and return to end his days among the associates of 
his childhood. 

The catalogue of priors, as collected by Burton and Torr 
from the register of the Priory, is printed in the Appendix. $ 
Of these it will not be necessary here to notice any but those 
who were themselves eminent for piety or learning, or who 
were rendered conspicuous by the transactions in which they 
bore a part. The name of the first prior, whose name occurs 
before A.D. 1124, is Guicheman, or Wikeman, to whom 
the Pope's bull above recited is addressed. 

The next in order of succession, who deserves our notice, 
was Robert, surnamed the Scribe, from having written or 

* See Appendix D. No. 5. f See Dugdale's Monast. Angl. 

X See Appendix F. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 21 

transcribed a great number of works, some of which have 
come down to us. He was the fourth prior, and flourished, 
according to Burton, about A. D. 1 160, in the reign of Henry 
the Second. Several particulars respecting him and his works 
have been collected by Bale, Bishop of Ossory, at the time 
of the Reformation. From his Lives of the English Writers, 
arranged in centuries down to the year 1577, Fuller derived 
most of his information about the Worthies of England. 
Bale wrote in Latin, and the biographical sketch he has 
given us of Robert the Scribe will be found in the Appendix.* 
We learn from the indefatigable Leland, who visited the 
monastery A. D. 1534, a few years before the dissolution, 
that he saw and inspected his voluminous manuscript col- 
lections, which were at that time preserved in the library 
belonging to the convent. They appear to have consisted 
chiefly of commentaries on various books of Scripture, com- 
piled from the writings of Hieronymus, Augustine, Bede, 
Anselm, and others. One of those enumerated in the 
catalogue given us by Leland, is preserved among the MSS. 
in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge. It 
is a Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul, beautifully 
written on vellum, in double columns, and is a very large 
sized folio. The initial letter of each epistle is splendidly 
illuminated. This very curious MS. is probably six hundred 
years old. In the prologue, the author describes the method 
pursued by him in forming these compilations. " Some- 
times," he says, " I have transcribed a passage word for 
word, at other times I have exercised my own judgment in 
abbreviating or amplifying the several extracts, as the occa- 
sion seemed to require." Leland visited his tomb, and it 
would seem that the traveller viewed the spot where the 
mortal remains of this once celebrated writer were deposited, 
with those feelings of veneration which usually accompany 

* See Appendix G, 



£* HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

our survey of the memorials of departed worth. He has left 
on record that, the prior was interred in the cloister, near 
the door of the chapter-house, with the following unostenta- 
tious and laconic inscription on his tomb stone, " Robertus, 
Scriba, quartus Prior." 

He was succeeded by Gregory,* who, there is reason to 
think, may be identified with a writer mentioned by Bale, 
under the name of Gregory of Bridlington, to have flourished 
about the same time. He is stated by Bale to have been a 
canon in the monastery, and to have been subsequently 
advanced to the dignity of precentor. His works are said 
to have consisted of some commentaries on the Scriptures, 
and sermons. As, however, his biographer sees occasion 
to mention with regret that very little is known concerning 
him, or the precise time at which he lived, it seems not 
improbable that he may have been that Gregory who was 
elected successor to the last-mentioned prior, Robert the 
Scribe, under whose superintendence he had pursued his 
literary studies, as a canon, with peculiar advantage. 

In the year A. D. 1200, King John, for the benefit of the 
monastery, granted licence to the prior and convent, that a 
fair should be held annually at Bridlington, on the festival of 
the Assumption of the Virgin, f (who was their patron saint,) 
and also a weekly market. The concourse of people drawn 
together on these occasions, could not fail to be beneficial to 
the interest of the canons ; and it is likely, in those lawless 
and troubled times, those who brought their goods to market 
were glad to take advantage of the security afforded to their 
property, when the traffic was carried on within the enclosure 
of the monastery. The royal charter runs thus : % " John, by 
the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke 

* See Appendix G. 

t Assumpt. B. Mariae Virg. August 15. See Calendar in Popish Breviary. 
J Copied from ExempI, of Charters granted to Brid. Priory, made temp. 
Car. I. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 23 

of Normandy and Aquitain, and Earl of Anjou, to the 
Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots/ Earls, Justices, Sheriffs, 
and all their Bailiffs and faithful servants greeting. Know 
ye, that we have given, granted, and confirmed, by this our 
present Charter, to God, and the Church of St. Mary of 
Bridlington, and the Canons there serving God, a Fair in 
every year, at Bridlington, to continue two days; to wit, 
upon the Eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, and 
on the day of the same Festival ; and one Market to be held 
there every week ; yet so that this fair and this market be 
not to the hurt of the neighbouring fairs, and the neighbour- 
ing markets. Wherefore, we will and firmly command, that 
they and their successors shall have and hold the aforesaid 
fair and market for ever, freely, quietly, wholly, honourably, 
and peaceably, with all liberties and free customs belonging 
to fairs and markets of this kind, yet so that they be not to 
the hurt of the neighbouring fairs and markets; and we 
prohibit any injury and molestation to be done to persons 
going to the aforesaid fair and market, or returning from 
thence, by either the Sheriff of Yorkshire, or any person 
else. Witness, Robert, Bishop of St. Andrew's, Robert de 
Thurnham, Hugh de Newiff, Robert de Veteri Pont©. 
Given by the hands of Simon, Archdeacon of Wells, at 
Lutegershall, the sixth day of December, in the second year 
of our reign." 

The fairs are now held twice in the year, and continue two 
days each time, on the Monday before Whitsunday, and on 
the twenty-first day of October, in the large open area, called 
' the Green,' within the ancient precincts of the close of 
the monastery, between ' the Bayle Gate' and the church. 
Here, too, the market was no doubt originally held, though 
the present market-place is in a different part of the town. 

At this time lived William of Newburgh,* so called from 

* See Appendix G. 



24 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

having spent the greater part of his life as an Augustine 
canon in the priory of Newburgh. He received his early 
education, however, in the Priory of Bridlington, at which 
place, or in its immediate neighbourhood, he is said to have 
been born. His Chronicle of English History was edited 
by Hearne, the antiquary. It commences with the Norman 
Conquest, and is carried down as far as the reign of King John. 
In the earlv part of the fourteenth century flourished the 
celebrated Peter of Langtoft* The village which gave him 
birth, and from which he derived his surname, is situated on 
the Yorkshire Wolds, about twelve miles from Bridlington, 
in the monastery of which place he received his education, 
and afterwards became one of the canons regular. He was 
the author of several works, the most esteemed of which was 
a Chronicle of England, in metre. This poem, or metrical 
romance, is written in French, and is comprised in five books. 
It is noticed in terms of high commendation by Warton, in 
his History of English Poetry, who has quoted several 
extracts from a translation of it into English metre, by 
Robert Brunne, in the reign of Edward the Third. This 
translation was published by Hearne. The history begins 
with the earliest traditional account of the ancient Britons, 
and ends with the reign of Edward the First. 

About the middle of this century, one of the most illus- 
trious ornaments of religion and learning which this monas- 
tery ever produced, was raised to the highest dignity which 
it had the power to confer. John de Bridlington was a 
native of the place, educated in the Prion', and afterwards 
removed to Oxford to complete his studies, where some of 
his works are still preserved in manuscript. The biographi- 
cal account given of him in Alban Butler's Lives of the 
Saints, is deserving of particular notice. It cannot be 
doubted, that the devotion to God, and the humility (that 

* See Appendix G. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 25 

sure characteristic of a truly great mind) which rendered 
him an object of veneration to his contemporaries, would 
have qualified him to adorn an age less darkened by the 
shades of ignorance and superstitious credulity. We find, 
that upon his return from the University, he assumed the 
religious habit, in the monastery of his native place ; and 
that he became successively precentor, almoner, sub-prior, 
and at length prior of his monastery. " This last charge," 
says Butler, " he had averted by his tears and importunities 
the first time he was chosen ; but, upon a second vacancy, 
his brethren, who were ashamed of their former want of 
resolution, obliged him to take up the yoke. It is incredi- 
ble how plentifully he relieved the necessities of all persons 
in distress, to whom he looked upon every thing as due 
that by his frugality and prudent economy could be spared 
in the management of his temporal revenues. His patience 
and meekness, and his constant application to the holy 
exercises of prayer, showed how much his whole conduct 
was regulated by the spirit of God ; and an extraordinary 
spiritual prudence, peace of mind, and meekness of temper, 
were the amiable fruits of his virtue." He lived to enjoy 
his high elevation seventeen years, and died on the 10th of 
October, A. D. 1379. So great was the opinion of his 
sanctity, that he was canonized as a saint after death, by 
order of the Pope, according to the superstitious habits of 
the age. The Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishops 
of Durham and Carlisle, performed the ceremony of the 
translation of his relics to a magnificent shrine, in the chapel 
behind the high altar of the Priory Church. Hither there 
was a numerous resort of pilgrims, and many miracles were 
reported to be wrought at his tomb. 

Burton mentions a will, made A. D. 1458, in which the 
testator directed his corpse to be interred in the church of 
St. Mary and St. John. The manner in which his name is here 
coupled with that of the patron saint, is very remarkable. A 



26 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

strong proof of the widely extended reputation he had acquired 
will appear from the following circumstance. By a charter 
of king Edward the Fourth, it appears that the rectory of 
Scarborough had been appropriated to the Priory of Brid- 
lington by king Henry the Fourth, and his grant confirmed 
by his successors, Henry the Fifth and Henry the Sixth. 
The charter of Edward the Fourth, after reciting this, 
proceeds thus : " Now we, from our great regard for the 
praise and honour of God, and of the blessed and glorious 
Virgin Mary, of Bridlington, and for the special respect 
which we have and bear toward the glorious confessor, the 
holy John, formerly prior of the aforesaid place, have 
granted, and by these presents do grant and confirm to the 
canons, and convent of the monastery of the blessed Mary, 
of Bridlington, and their successors, the said church of 
Scarborough, with all its chapels, rents, &c. and the ad- 
vowson and patronage of the said church, with every thing 
appertaining, to have and to hold by the same canons and 
convent, and their successors, for a pure and perpetual alms 
for ever." The above charter is addressed to Peter, the then 
prior, and the canons of Bridlington. Peter Ellard was 
prior in the reign of Edward the Fourth ; he held that office 
from A. D. 1462 to 1472. Owing to this appropriation, 
the church of Scarborough, though situated in the North 
Riding, is in the archdeaconry of the East Riding. 

Some extracts from the writings of John de Bridlington 
will be found, along with the account given of him by Bale, 
in the Appendix.* 

In the time of his successor, William de Newbold, the 
monastery is recorded to have been subjected to incon- 
venience from being situated so near the sea coast. In con- 
sequence of the maritime attacks of the pirates, who infested 
the Northern sea, the property of the prior and convent be- 

* Sec Appendix G. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 27 

came so insecure, that king Richard the Second, A. D. 1388, 
granted them his royal licence to enclose and fortify the 
Priory with walls and gates of stone. There seems to have 
been four of these gates, Kirk Gate, West Gate, Nun Gate, 
and Bayle Gate. The last is the only one now remaining, 
and has already been mentioned. Its architecture would 
lead us to assign this period for its erection. 

A long interval of more than half a century follows, with- 
out any remarkable occurrence on record, nor should we 
have been led to notice Robert Brystwyk, who was prior 
A. D. 1472, but for a modern discovery of considerable 
interest. The occurrence alluded to, happened A. D. 1821, 
when, as some workmen were employed in digging up, 
and clearing away the foundations of ancient monastic 
buildings, south of the church, in order to prepare the 
ground to be used as an additional burying-place, they ac- 
cidentally broke into a vault on the site of the south transept. 
This vault was found to contain a stone coffin, in which 
were the remains of the prior. The hair of the beard, and 
the serge in which the body had been wrapped, were still 
undecayed, and relics of each have been preserved by several 
persons who were eye-witnesses on the occasion. The coffin, 
after being opened, was left in its original position ; but a slab 
of chalk-stone, which had been laid over it to mark the place 
of interment on the floor of the church, was taken up, and is 
now deposited in the vestry. On the margin of this stone, is 
engraven, in old English characters, deeply cut, and in the 
most perfect state of preservation, the following inscription : 

fgic wtt mb l&ofit' firssttoBtu 
quo oi prior fjut' Ion & olntt 
ano do in ctcc nonagmmo m 
cm* ate jptciet' ire* amen 

Which may be thus translated, — " Here lieth Lord Robert 
Brystwyk, formerly prior of this place, who died in the 



28 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety- 
three, on whose soul God have mercy. Amen."* 

A similar tomb-stone discovered in digging eastward of 
the church, A. D. 1786, is said to have belonged to Robert 
Danby, who was prior, A. D. 1498; but this, through neg- 
ligence, has not been preserved to us. 

In the reign of Henry the Seventh, about A.D. 1490, the 
indefatigable philosopher, and alchemist. Sir George Rip- 
ley, kniuht. was a canon, in the Priory of Bridlington. 
Alchemy was the favourite study of the day, and many 
clever ami scientific men were induced to turn aside from 
the useful path of natural philosophy, and to employ them- 
selves in useless endeavours to discover the " philosopher's 
stone." Ripley was one of these, and soon after he had 
assumed the religious habit, and had been elected a canon, 
he quitted England, and spent several years abroad in tra- 
velling, particularly in Italy. At Rome he obtained a dis- 
pensation from the Pope, to exempt him from attending the 
devotional services, and other religious ceremonies observed 
by the rest of his brethren in the monastery, and this leave 
was granted, in order to enable him to give his whole time 
and attention to scientific pursuits. On his return. however, 
he found the canons unwilling to allow one of their number 
to partake of the emoluments of office, while he was at the 
same time exempted from the discipline and duties required 
of each member, by the laws of the society. He therefore 
resigned bis canonry, ami retired to Boston, in Lincolnshire, 
where be ended his days, as an anchoret of the order of the 
Carmelites. Some curious extracts from his writings, seve- 
ral copies of which are preserved in various manuscript col- 
lections, will be found in the Appendix. f 

* See Thompson's Historical Sketches of Bridlington, p. 144, for a very 
correct representation of a similar tomb-stone found at the same time be- 
longing to Robert Charder. a canon. 
Appendix <. ; 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 29 

The historical narrative of the monastery has now been 
brought down from its foundation, to the period of its dis- 
solution, which we shall shortly have to relate. 

A few brief biographical notices of the principal indivi- 
duals, who passed their lives within its walls, and who were 
distinguished, above the rest, either for piety or learning, 
are nearly all the materials of general interest that can be 
gathered from the records of any monastic establishment. 
Indeed, it is not to be supposed, that, a body of men, who 
by the rule of their order were devoted to retirement, and 
whose time was divided between the daily exercises of de- 
votion, and the quiet pursuits of reading and writing,* should 
act a conspicuous part on the stage of life, or have their 
private concerns mixed up with the affairs of the great and 
busy world. 

The Priory of Bridlington had now existed during a period 
of four centuries, and in that time had acquired a very large 
share of power and property. Its revenues were, at this 
time, of the clear value of more than five hundred pounds a 
year, an immense income, considering the value of money 
at that day, when it was thought sufficient to assign a 
stipend of eight pounds a year for the maintenance of a 
parish priest, who was to represent the prior and canons as 
the religious instructor of the people. 

During the century of which we have been speaking, the 
writings of Wycliffe, and others, in England, had prepared 
the minds of the people for some reformation in the esta- 
blished religion of the country. But in the reign of Henry 
the Eighth, the tyranny and usurpation of the Papacy 
were attacked with vigour and success, by such men 
as Luther and Calvin on the Continent; while, in our own 
country, Cranmer, and Ridley, and Latimer, strove with un- 
usual wisdom and moderation to free the church from those 

* See Appendix H. 



30 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

erroneous doctrines and practices, which had no foundation 
either in reason or revelation.* 

Anions the various important changes, which were intro- 
duced into our ecclesiastical establishment at this memora- 
ble period, perhaps one of the greatest was the general dis- 
solution of the monasteries throughout the kingdom. When 
the church of England had refused any longer to acknow- 
ledge the usurped supremacy of the Pope, the King, as 
Supreme head of the church, appointed Cromwell, then 
secretary of state, his vicar-general. He was directed to 
employ commissioners to commence a general visitation, in 
order to ascertain the state of the religious houses. The 
alteration which had now taken place in the religious feelings 
of the nation, added to the diffusion of learning, had opened 
their eyes to the absurdity of the miracles pretended to be 
performed by the monks, the inefficacy of masses for the 
souls of the dead, and of adoring saints and relics. All 
these things, which had so long been the objects of super- 
stitious awe and veneration, were now denounced by the 
reformers, as idolatrous, and repugnant to the word of God ; 
and as having no place in the records of primitive Chris- 
tianity. 

It is not necessary to suppose that the disorders said to be 
discovered in the religious houses were universal, but it is 
certain they prevailed to a great extent. The means, how- 
ever, by which the monks had acquired their power, ceased 
any longer to exert their influence over the minds of the 
people ; and there was so much fraud and hypocrisy in 
their system, when its foundations were narrowly examined, 

* " Our godly forefathers, to whom under God we owe the purity of our 
religion, and some of which laid down their lives for the defence of the 
same, they had no purpose, nor had they any warrant to set up a new reli- 
gion, but to reform the old, by purging it from those innovations which, in 
tract of time, (some sooner, some later,) had mingled with it and corrupted 
it both in doctrine and worship." — Bishnp Sanderson, a< quoted in Words- 
worth's Ecclesiastical BiograpKy, vol, ii. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. .'jl 

as to furnish sufficient cause for suppressing the order 
altogether. 

In the twenty-seventh year of Henry the Eighth, an act 
of parliament was passed, by which the state, in considera- 
tion of the abuses which had crept into the lesser monasteries, 
ordered them to be dissolved, and their revenues to be con- 
fiscated to the King's use. By the term lesser monasteries, 
all such as had an income of more than 200/. per annum 
were stated to be comprised within the meaning of the act. 

The greater monasteries, however, of which Bridlington 
was one, saw that the execution of this act was but a step to 
further aggressions, and the greatest fears were entertained 
of the consequences. 

The following letter from William Wode, the last prior 
of Bridlington, to Thomas Cromwell, secretary of state, is 
now for the first time published, and was transcribed by the 
author from Roger Dodsworth's copy of the original, in the 
Bodleian Library.* 

" Right worshipfull, my duty in most humble manner 
remembered, I recommend me to your gude mastershipp. 
And forsomuch as your said mastershipp, by your last 
letters to me directed, advised me, and in like manner 
counselled me, to recognize the King's hyghnes to be our 
Patron and Founder, forasmuch as no article, word, sentence, 
or clause, in our original grante to bus made by Gilbert de 
Gaunte, cosign to our original Founder, appeared to tfee 
contrarye whye of equitie his hyghnes owght not so to be, 
or else to appere before ane other of his gracious counsell 
the last day of October, as I wold avoyd His Grace's hygh 
displeasure. In this matter, even so humbly as I canne, I 

* This copy has since heen compared with the original preserved in the 
British Museum among the Harleian MSS. Cleopatra, E. iv. p. 53. The 
date, 1587, M inserted in \\, Dodsworth's copy, but. is wanting in the 
original 



32 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION 1 . 

shall beseche your good mastershipp to be gude master to 
me, and your poor and cotidiall orators my brethren. For 
notwithstanding the King's Grace his noble progenitors titles 
and clames heretofore made to our sayd partronage and 
foundershipp, (thoughe all we are, and ever wil be at his 
most gracious commandment and pleasor) yet we have ever 
bene dimissed clere without any interruption on this behalf 
nigh this two hundred yeares, as shall appere before your 
gudeness under substantiall evidence of record. And so I 
beseech your mastershipp we may be at this tyme, ffor in 
your mastershipp our holle trust in all our gude causes 
remayneth. And wheras I am deteyned with divers infir- 
mities in my body, and in lyke manner am feble of nature, 
so that without great jeopardie of my lyffe, I cannot, nor am 
not liable to labor in doing of my deuty to appere before 
your mastershipp, I right humbly besech your gudenes to 
have me excused, and in like manner to accept the bearer 
my brother, as my lawfull deputie in this behaulf, who shall 
make your mastershipp answer as concerning these premises, 
to whom I beseeche your mastershipp geve firrae credence, of 
whom also ye shall receve a pore token from me, which I 
eftsoones besech your gude mastershipp to accept thankfully, 
with my pore hert and cotidiall prayers, of which ye shall be 
assured enduryng my lyffe, as is my duty, God willinge, 
who ever preserve your gude mastershipp in much worshipp 
long to endure, ffrom our Monastery of Bridlington, the 
xxiii day of October, by your humble and cotidiall servant, 
WillS Prior 
[1537.] of the same." 

.The discontent and fears produced by the suppression of 
the lesser monasteries, being fomented by the heads of the 
religious houses, and by several of the nobility and gentry 
who were strongly attached to the rites and ceremonies of 
popery, soon led to several acts of rebellion, which only 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 33 

served to hasten the destruction of the monasteries. An 
insurrection in Lincolnshire was headed by the prior of 
Barlings in disguise ; and another broke out about the 
same time in Yorkshire, which was called the " Pilgrimage 
of Grace." Both, however, were soon quelled. The last 
insurrection which took place, was chiefly in the North and 
East Ridings of Yorkshire, and in this William Wode, the 
last prior of Bridlington, appears to have taken a prominent 
part. This attempt, like the former, proved unsuccessful ; 
and the leaders of the insurgents, among whom were the 
Lord D'Arcy, Earl of Holderness ; Sir Robert Constable, of 
Flamborough ; Sir Thomas Percy ;* the abbots of Fountains, 
Rievaulx, and Jervaulx ; and the prior of Bridlington, were 
apprehended and executed for high treason. 

The suppression of the religious establishments over 
which these unfortunate persons had presided, was now a 
measure of no great difficulty, and in the thirty-first year 
of Henry the Eighth, an act similar to the one just men- 
tioned was passed, for the suppression of the greater monas- 
teries. 

In pursuance of this act of parliament, an inquisition was 
held A. D. 1538, at York, before William Fox Esq., the 
King's escheator, when Sir William Fairfax, and other 
commissioners, who had been appointed to inquire into 
the value of the manors forfeited to the King, upon the 
seizing of the persons attainted of high treason in the late 
rebellion, were examined on oath, and at this time the clear 
annual value of the manor of Bridlington was declared to 
be 19G/. 5s. 5d. and that of the rectory, which had been 
appropriated to the prior and convent, 36/. 65. Sd.f 

* He was second son to Henry Algernon, fifth Earl of Northumberland, 
who died about A. D. 1527, and by whom the famous Percy Household Book 
was composed, A.D. 1512, for the use of his castles of Wressil and Lecking- 
field, near Beverley, where, in the minster, he erected the beautiful Percy 
monument in memory of the Earl and Countess, his father and mother. 

I See Appendix I. 

D 



34 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

The buildings belonging to the monaster) were demolish- 
ed the following year A. D. 1539, including the transepts, 

central tower, and choir of the conventual church. The 
letter which follows, has been published in the new edition 
of Dugdalo's Monastieon : and. although the latter part only 
relates to tiie demolition of this Priory, yet the particulars 
respecting the destruction of Jervaulx Abbey serve equally to 
show the line of proceedings adopted in similar cases. The 
original letter is preserved in the British Museum, but the 
author transcribed it from Roger Dodsworth's copy in the 
Bodleian Library. It is addressed to Cromwell, the chief 
secretary of state by Richard Bellycys, one of the commis- 
sioners. 

" Pleasythe your good Lordshipp to be advertysed. i 
have taken downe all the lead of Jervayse, and made itt in 
pecys of half-foders, which lead amounteth to the numbre of 
eighteen score and five foders, with thirty and foure foders, 
and a half, that were there before. And the said lead can- 
not be COnveit, nor caryed unto the next sombre, for the 
ways in that centre are so foule, and deep, that no carrage, 
can passe in wyntre. And as concerning the raising, and 
taken downe the house, if itt be your Lordshipps pleasure 
I am minded to let itt stand to the Spring o\' the yore, b\ 
reason of the days are now so short it wolde be double 
charge to do itt now. And as concerning the selling of the 
bells 1 cannot sell them above 15s. the hundreth, wherein 
I would gladly know your Lordshipps pleasor, whether f 
should sell them after that price, or send them up to London. 
And if they be sent up surely the carriage wolbe costly frome 
that place to the water. And as for ByrdHngtoi) I have 
doyn nothing there as yet, but sparethe itt to March next, 
bycause the days now are so short, and from such tune ;:> 
1 begyn I trust shortly to dyspatche it after such fashion that 
when all is fynished, T trust your Lordshipp shall that think 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. J/> 

that I have bene no evyll howsbound in all such things, as 
your Lonlshipp haith appoynted me to (loo. And thus the 
Holy Ghost ever preserve your Lordshipp in honor. At 
York this fourteenth day of November by your most bounden 
beadsman. 

[1538.] Richard Bellycys." 

The promise contained in this letter was amply fulfilled 
in the demolition of the Priory of Bridlington. Never was 
transition more rapid from the height of prosperity and 
power, to almost utter annihilation. For nearly four centu- 
ries this magnificent monastery had flourished in uninter- 
rupted security. Thirty-one superiors of the convent had 
succeeded each other in a long and unbroken line of succession, 
and the last unfortunate person, who filled this illustrious 
and dignified station, was now doomed to prove, by bitter 
experience, the instability of human fortune ; himself con- 
demned to perish on the scaffold, and his princely revenues 
squandered in reckless profusion, to gratify the rapacity of 
courtiers, or the extravagance of royal desires. It was not 
for such purposes that these revenues had been bequeathed 
by the noble benefactors of the monastery. In their minds, 
the first feeling was a sincere though mistaken notion of 
providing for the repose of their souls, and the remission of 
their sins, by bestowing their worldly possessions to promote 
the honour of God, and the sumptuousness of his house, and 
the splendid solemnities of his worship, and the maintenance 
of the priests of his altar; the next, a spirit of benevolence? 
towards their fellow men, the relief of the poor, and the care 
of the infirm. 

We mean not to assert, that these benevolent intentions 
had, in all cases, been carried into effect by those to whom 
their execution was entrusted. Suppose them to have been 
generally abused, and misapplied. What was the proper 
work of reformation? Was it not to lead back the streams 



36 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 

of charity into their original channel, or one more beneficial 
to the community at large ? * Were there no longer schools 
and hospitals to be founded ? No clergy to be respectably 
maintained ? No poor to be relieved ? — Let the present de- 
plorable state of many of our impoverished parishes answer. 

By the dissolution of the monastery, the manor and 
rectory of Bridlington, which had been granted by William 
the Conqueror to Gilbert de Gaunt, and by him to the 
prior and convent, now reverted to his royal successor 
Henry the Eighth, by whom, and his successor, Edward the 
Sixth, they were granted on lease to various individuals. 

In the time of Queen Elizabeth the manor and rectory 
were granted on lease to John Stanhope Esq., on condition 
of paying a salary of eight pounds a year to a priest, who 
should perform divine service, and have the charge of souls 
within the parish. The lessee was also allowed to take stone 
from the ruins of the monastery lor the repairs of the pier. 

The manor and rectory were conferred by James the First 
upon Sir John Ramsay, a Scotch baronet, to whom the title 
of Earl of Holderness, extinct by the attainder of the Lord 
D'Arcy in the late rebellion, had been given, as a reward 
for his services. 

In the time of Charles the First the manor was sold by 
the Ramsay family to thirteen inhabitants of the town ; by 
whom it was purchased on behalf of themselves and the 
other tenants within the manor. By letters patent of 
Charles the First, reciting all the former grants made by 
his predecessors and others to the dissolved Priory, the 
manor was confirmed to the then proprietors and their suc- 
cessors, one of whom is annually elected chief lord of the 
manor, f 

The Rectory was sold to the Boyntons, from whom it 

* See Sir Henry Spelman's Treatise on Tithes. 
I Sec Appendix K. 



HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION. 37 

passed successively into the possession of the Fairfaxes, 
Bowers, and Heblethwaytes, who are the present impropria- 
tors.* 

The advowson was, however, retained by the Crown, the 
nomination being vested in the Archbishop of York; by 
whom, towards the close of the last century, it was trans- 
ferred, under the act of parliament, to the Rev. Matthew 
Buck, and his heirs, in consideration of a donation for the 
augmentation of the living, to enable it to receive Queen 
Anne's bounty, f 

Some account of the public charities belonging to the 
parish of Bridlington will be found in the Appendix. J 

* See Appendix L. See also Allen's History of Yorkshire, Lib. IV. 
c. 12. p. 15. 

f See Appendix M. J See Appendix N. 



CHAPTER It. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

The nave of the ancient Priory Church, and an arched 
gateway leading to it are the sole remains of the once 
spacious and magnificent monastery of Bridlington. But in 
order to form a just estimate of these beautiful architectural 
fragments they must be viewed in connection with those 
parts of the fabric now destroyed, or we shall never form a 
just idea of the relative proportions of the whole.* The 
ancient precinct of the monastery must have been accurately 
defined by the walls and gates with which it was enclosed in 
the reign of Richard the Second, but no traces of them exist, 
if we except the ancient gate-house, or principal entrance to 
the close of the Priory, now called the ' Bayle Gate.' 
Through this noble gateway we enter the ancient close of 
the monastery, which is still an open space, called ' the 
Green,' and used as it formerly was, for holding the fair 
granted by King John to the canons, f On the north side of 

* It is reported, I know not with what degree of accuracy, that drawings 
and ground plans of the church and monastery of Bridlington, token before 
the dissolution, are preserved along with those of many other English 
monasteries, in the college at St. Omer's, and in the Vatican at Rome. 

f This was probably also the ancient market-place, as at Whitby the 
market during the time the monastery was in existence was held near it, 
round an old cross, but after its dissolution removed into the town, for the 
better convenience of the inhabitants. — See Charlton a History of Whitby. 



40 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

this piece of ground stands the church, and a paved cause- 
way, the same width as the gate, leads directly across it to 
the great west door; the south-west angle of the church 
facing the Bayle Gate. The principal tower appears to 
have been in the centre of the church between the nave, and 
the choir now gone ; it is stated in the Visitor's Survey to 
have been furnished with seven bells, but in a very ruinous 
state. A buttress of a similar style to those on either side 
of the great west window seems to have been raised at the 
north-east corner of the church on the inside for its support. 
At the west end there appears to have been also two towers, 
of which the lower stories only now remain. The north- 
western tower is now unroofed, and the arches connecting it 
with the north aisle are built up. The name of ' the old 
steeple ' it may have acquired probably from a bell, or bells, 
hung in it since the dissolution, the three bells which the 
church now possesses were purchased by subscription about 
the middle of the last century,* and the octagon turret, with 
its leaden cupola, which was erected for their reception on 
the top of the basement of the south-west tower, is as ano- 
malous and disfiguring to the venerable structure to which it is 
attached, as can well be conceived. The ruined state of the 
central tower may account for the extensive repairs which 
appear to have been in progress at the west end of the nave, 
when their completion was stopped by the dissolution of the 
monastery. The effect of these repairs was to assimilate 
the western front of the church, to that of the beautiful 
neighbouring collegiate church of Beverley, which is in 
the same style. Between the south-western tower, and 
the south door, the prior's lodge was built against the wall 
of the church : the hall having an ascent of twenty steps 
on the south : in the wall of the church the pillars and 
groined arches of the vaulted apartment below it still 

* A. D. 1763: the tenor bell weighs 11991bs. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 41 

remain. * Eastward of the prior's lodge, along the south 
wall of the church, may be seen ranges of stone abutments for 
supporting the beams of the roof, of one side of the cloisters 
which were so situated as to connect the prior's lodge with the 
church, and the other domestic buildings of the monastery. 
On the east side of the cloister square was the dormitory, 
occupying, as it would seem, the position of what would other- 
wise have been the south transept ; and beyond it, as a 
building detached from the rest of the fabric, the chapter- 
house. The refectory was on the south side of the cloister. 
The buildings of the monastery thus occupying the area south 
of the church, the ancient burying ground was therefore 
entirely on the north side. And beyond the street which 
bounds the church-yard on the north, and surrounding 
a large piece of water, called 'the Green Dyke,' were 
the barns and stables, granary, maltkiln, and other agricul- 
tural premises belonging to the convent ; which, if we may 
judge from their dimensions, as given in the Visitor's Survey, 
being also built of stone and covered with lead, were on 
a very large and substantial scale. Such appears to have 
been the original plan of the monastery, and the relative 
position of the various buildings of which it was composed ; 
and, having given this general outline of the whole, we may 
now proceed to a more particular examination of the several 
parts. 

The principal entrance to the Priory, now known by the 
name of the Bayle Gate,f is still entire. Most of the larger 
monasteries were furnished with such an appendage ; and 
these gates have, in several instances, escaped the general 
demolition of the rest of the monastic buildings. Those re- 
maining at St. Alban's and Ely are similar to the present one. 

*The demolished prior's lodge has not been succeeded by any parsonage- 
house, 
f Ballium, a fortress or prison. 



12 URCHITSGTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

On approaching the church by this entrance, a very beautiful 
new of it is presented to the eye, the. noble west front and 

part of the south side of the nave being visible under the 
archway, the groined root' ol* which is of excellent workman- 
ship, and very handsome. (See Plate I.)* In this view, too, 
the site of the eastern part of the old conventual church 
being hidden from the view by the arch of the gate, there 
is no one from which we may form a better idea of the 
original grandeur of the edifice, if the eye were not offended 
by the incongruous modern bell-turret, on the top of the 
south-western tower. On reference to Plate I. it will be 
observed that on the outer side next the town there is a 
greater arch and a postern, in the sides of which the hooks 
that, formerly supported the doors still remain. The upper 
part of this building, next the town, has been rebuilt with 
brick so as greatly to disfigure its beauty, — of the other side 
a view is given in Plate II. This building is thus described 
in the Commissioners' Survey, f at the time of the dissolu- 
tion of the Priory, and has been very little altered since 
that period : — 

" At the coming in of the Priory is a gate-house four 
square of tower-fashion, builded with ffree stone, and well 
covered with leade. And on the south syde of the same gate- 
house, ys a porter's lodge wt. a chymney, a rounde stayre 
ledying up to a hye chamber, wherein the three wekscourtej 
ys always kept in, wt. a chymney in the same, and betweene 
the stayre foote, and the same hie chamber where the courte 
ys kepte, be tow proper chambers, one above the other, 
wt. chymneys. In the north side of the same gate-house 
ys there a prison, for offenders wtin the towne, called the 
Kydcott. And in the same northsyde is a lyke payre of 

* The Numbers refer to the List of the Plates. 

f See Appendix O. 

J The Court Baron was formerly held every three weeks.— Blacks/onf. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 43 

stayree ledyng up to one hye chamber in the same toure 

with a cliymney. Md. that all the wyndowes of Ihe sayd 
toure be clerely wtoute glasse." 

The larger arch on the outer side of the gale is orna- 
mented with two broad hollow mouldings, in which, at inter- 
vals, are placed leaves, flowers, and grotesque heads. There 
is a similar moulding under the great west window, of which, 
as well as the highly ornamented door benealh it, a separate 
Plate has been published as a companion to those in the 
present work. 

The arch on the inner side is elegantly wrought below its 
spring with two compartments of trefoil headed pannel- 
ling, one above the other, surmounted by a narrow band of 
quatre-foils. On the right side of this arch is a flat-headed 
door, which seems to have been formerly a window, as there 
is a corresponding one on the other side now filled up, and 
recently hidden from the view by the erection of a shed for a 
fire-engine, whose red brick walls and tiled roof ill accord 
with the grey walls of the venerable building to which it is 
annexed. 

The four corbels from which the groined roof of the gate- 
way springs, are well worth notice. They represent four 
figures in a sitting posture. Two of them are delineated 
in Plate VIII. On one side are two ecclesiastics, with the 
monk's cowl and habit, and one of them has an instrument 
something like a bagpipe under his arm. On the other 
side is a king and a warrior, the former is crowned, and in 
chain armour; the other bears a shield, on which may still be 
traced the device of a dagger : but all are much defaced, as 
well as the bosses upon the intersections of the jiroinin^, 
which are large, and seem to have been well wrought. 

From this fine gateway we proceed to the grand western 
entrance of the ancient Priory Church. (See Plate III.) 
It is profusely decorated, and is an exquisite specimen of the 
architecture of Henry ihe Seventh's time: excepting, how- 



44 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

ever, the north-western tower, which we have before observed, 
belongs to a much earlier period. On either side of the great 
west door is a range of six niches with brackets for the statues, 
ornamented with angel heads. These niches are three feet 
high, and the elegant crocketed canopies with which they 
are surmounted rise to the same height. Above the door 
within the ogee canopy, which rises over it, and is like the 
niches ornamented with crockets, is another niche. The 
design of the whole seems to have corresponded with that of 
the high altar screen, which contained statues of Christ and 
the twelve Apostles, at the Assumption of the Virgin. Here, 
however, the niche over the door was most likely occupied by 
the Virgin and Child. There are also two other niches 
placed rather singularly, so as to interrupt the perpendicular 
mouldings of the great door on each side, they might be 
intended for stoups, or holy water-basins ; but in their pre- 
sent mutilated condition it is difficult to determine. Niches 
similar to the six on each side the great door are continued 
round the immense buttresses, which flank the west window ; 
but the brackets of these are plain, and the canopied heads 
of the niches on the face of the buttress are of a pattern 
diverse from the others. The wall below the window and the 
entire surface of the buttresses is richly pannelled throughout, 
and the base-mouldings are extremely bold, and well exe- 
cuted. The foliage of the ornamental borders within the arch 
of the great door is uncommonly elegant, although sadly 
mutilated. There are three patterns, one of oak leaves and 
acorns ; another of olive leaves and berries ; a third of fig- 
leaves, — and the capitals of the side shafts are blended into 
one broad border of vine leaves. 

The west window is fifty-five feet in height, from its base 
to the crown of the arch, and twenty-seven in breadth. 
The head is filled with good perpendicular tracery ; the 
lower compartment below the transom is the only portion at 
present glazed, and is fifteen feel high. Along this there is 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 45 

a gallery connecting the two western towers, and it is remark- 
able that the upper part of the window is two feet wider than 
the part below the transom. The door in the south-west 
tower is precisely of the same character as the larger one 
just described ; its ornaments are in better preservation, and 
it has therefore been engraved in Plate VI., as a specimen 
of both. 

The north-western tower has a low door, now walled up, 
and a semicircular arch, the only door-way of this form now 
remaining in the building. The mouldings, however, are 
devoid of any ornament. The style of this tower is early 
English, as is also the whole of the north side of the church. 
(See Plate IV.) 

The windows eastward of the north porch are beau- 
tiful specimens of this style. Three are in pairs, and 
two single: the buttresses which separate them are also 
extremely light and elegant, surmounted by triangular heads 
crocketed ; in the centre of each is a grotesque figure, 
serving the purpose of a water-spout. The clerestory 
windows correspond with those on the south side of the 
church, which are all early decorated, excepting the three 
nearest the south-west tower. These, as well as the piers 
below them, seem to have been altered along with the west 
front. The tracery is perpendicular, though far inferior to 
that of the great west window ; and the piers, instead of being- 
clustered, are quadrangular, and covered with pannelling like 
the interior and exterior wall of the west front. All the 
decorated windows of the church are of an early kind, and 
the tracery consists of various combinations of trefoils, and 
quatre-foils ; there isno instance of the more elegant decorated 
tracery, of which the west window at York is so fine an 
example. The parapet of the nave is ornamented with a 
border of very unusual pattern (see Plate VIII.) : it is con- 
tinued round the top of the north-west tower. 

The north porch is a truly splendid specimen of architec- 



40 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

hire, and perhaps better worth preservation than any other 
part of the fabric ; but it has been sadly neglected, as the 
entrance is seldom used, and the earth has been suffered to 
accumulate so much against the whole of the north side of the 
church, that there is now a descent of several steps into the 
porch. In spite, however, of damp and dirt, the freshness 
of some parts of the sculpture is astonishing. In Plate VII. 
an elevation of this porch is given, as it would appear if the 
earth were cleared away which now conceals the lower part of 
the columns below the two heads, which form brackets in the 
niches on either side. The variety and beauty of the mould- 
ings is very great ; among these the toothed ornament is 
conspicuous, and the open work of the foliage on the capitals 
of the columns is of the best sort. The groined stone ceiling 
is destroyed, and the original angular roof of the porch 
has been displaced to make way for the erection of a room 
over the porch, which has had a communication with the 
interior of the church. This upper story is altogether un- 
worthy of the lower. There is a perpendicular window of 
five lights in front, and an ogee arch at the side. 

The east wall of the church is merely an unsightly mass of 
buttresses. Two windows, probably taken from the rains 
of the choir, have been inserted, — one is decorated, the other 
perpendicular. The architecture of the demolished choir* 
appears to have corresponded with that of the north aisle of 
the church; nothing is said about the north transept. In 
the north aisle of the choir were eleven narrow windows, and 
similar ones in the south aisle, every one of them ' of one 
lyghte,' except two windows on the south with e five lyghtes 
apiece.' In the east end of the choir were eleven windows; 

* The beautiful collegiate church of Howden shared a similar fate: Mr. 
Pennant says, " Howden is distinguished by the ruin of its fine church, in 
form of a cross, length 2-51 feet, transept 100 feet, east part quite a ruin." 
The chapter-house is an octagon of the richest workmanship, also in ruins. 
— See Allen's History of Yorkshire. Book IV. c. 15. p. 165. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 47 

1 ten of one lyghte, and one of three lyghtes.' The clerestory 
windows appear also to have been similar to those in the 
aisles, being described as a double story of the same. There 
does not seem to have been any painted glass in the choir, 
for it is particularly mentioned the ' windowes were all of 
whyte glasse.' Some fragments, however, have been found 
in digging near the church, and have been taken out of 
the upper part of the great west window, which are in the 
possession of some of the inhabitants. The interior of 
the choir is said to have been well covered with wainscot ; the 
stalls substantial, and at the time of the dissolution ' newly- 
made after the right goodly fashion.' The stone screen at 
the high altar is said to have been of a great height, ex- 
cellently well wrought, and as well 'gilded,'' according to 
the taste of the day. It was decorated with a number of 
large statues, representing Christ at the Assumption of the 
Virgin, (to whom the church was dedicated) and the twelve 
Apostles. In the space between the splendid screen and 
the east end of the church, was the shrine of St. John of 
Bridlington. This shrine ' was placed in a fair chapel on 
high, having on either side a stair of stone for to go and 
come by,' — and underneath were five chapels furnished with 
their respective altars and images. The vestry was on the 
south side of the choir. It is to be regretted that no ruins 
of the eastern part, of the conventual church now remain to 
enable us to verify and illustrate the curious particulars of 
the above description ; nor have the casual discoveries of the 
foundation of walls and pillars been recorded with sufficient 
exactness to throw any material light in addition upon the 
subject.* 

The nave consists of nine arches, exclusive of the western 
towers. The eastern wall is not perpendicular to the side 
walls, as will appear from the ground plan, (see Plate X.) 
There is an ascent of three steps to the altar, which is 

* See Allen's History of Yorkshire. Book IV. c. 12. p. 11. 



48 . ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

probably on the site of the screen which separated the nave 
from the choir.* On the ground plan are marked the divi- 
sions by which the three eastern arches are appropriated to 
the chancel ; the three middle ones are filled with pews, and 
here the service is performed ; the three western are unoc- 
cupied. 

The font is quite plain, and raised on two steps; it is of 
marble, common in Derbyshire, which is full of petrifactions ; 
and I should be inclined to think, not the original one. The 
monumental stone near it is shown in Plate IX. The 
sculpture is very ancient, but this stone has evidently been 
brought from some other part of the church, after the disso- 
lution, to its present situation, and used as a tomb-stone. 
There is an inscription much defaced, the letters wretchedly 
executed, with the date 1587 on the under side; the stone 
having been turned to display the sculpture. Of the pewing 
of this church nothing can be said, but that it is irregular, 
inconvenient, and altogether unworthy of the fine building in 
which it is placed ,• and it is to be hoped the efforts which 
have been made from time to time for a general improve- 
ment, will ultimately be successful. One or two ineffectual 
attempts have also been made to procure an organ, which is 
much wanted. 

The clustered pillars (see Plate V.), are extremely fine; 
they consist of twelve shafts, arranged upon a quadrangular 
base ; the four at the angles are larger than the rest, and 
the eight smaller are placed in pairs between them. The 
capitals are plain, and the mouldings of the arches very bold 
and numerous. There are dripstones over many of them, 
terminated by heads. The triforia, on the south side, are 
similar to the gallery over the great west door ; being formed 
by pillars parallel to the mullions of the clerestory windows 
below the transom. They are fifteen feet high, and three 

* The present screen and altar-piece were probably erected in Queen 
Anne's reign, A. D. 1713. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 49 

in breadth. Under the clerestory windows, on the north 
side, is a range of arches filled with open work tracery, like 
the windows above, and apparently intended for triforia; 
but there is no gallery or passage whatever. Immediately 
over these arches is a passage, on a level with the bottom 
of the north clerestory windows, and another on the op- 
posite side, above the triforia already mentioned. There 
are winding staircases leading to these triforia in the two 
western towers; and formerly the only approach to both, 
was by a door-way in the north-western tower : the com- 
munication being kept up by means of the gallery over the 
west door, which has been described. The difference 
between the angle of the original roof of the church is nine 
feet and a half; and owing to this, the upper part of the west 
window is hidden from view on the inside. 

The length of the present church, in the interior, is 185 
feet; and the distance of the farthest pillar from the east 
wall of the church, whose foundation has been taken up, 
152 feet; so that the ancient church seems to have been 
nearly of the same length as Beverley minster, about 333 
feet : its breadth is 68 feet ; and height about 70 feet. 

The south door is very plain ; but in the inside wall near 
it is a handsome corbel terminated by a grotesque figure, 
for which, see Plate VIII. In the same plate will also be 
found a very elegant ornamental arch over the interior of 
the north door. 

A list of testamentary burials, and monumental inscrip- 
tions, will be found in the Appendix. * The only ancient 
ones now remaining are the slab near the font before-men- 
tioned, and a flat grey stone also near the font, formerly 
ornamented with the figure of a warrior, and four shields at 
the corners ; but the brasses are gone. It cannot be doubted 
from Torr's account of the testamentary burials, that several 

* See Appendix P. 



50 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

persons of distinction were here interred ; but chiefly in the 
choir and transepts, and so the monuments have been de- 
molished along with them. * The tomb-stones of a prior 
and canon, now preserved in the vestry, have been described 
in the former chapter ; and another tomb-stone, without in- 
scription, with a cross beautifully sculptured on it, was found 
buried near the north door, and is kept in the church for the 
inspection of the curious. The shrine of St. John, formerly 
at the east end, has also been noticed. In the Harl. MSS. 
British Museum, (Vesp. E.,) there are two drawings rudely 
executed with a pen, and damaged at the edges by fire, of 
the shrines of Prior Gregory and Sir George Ripley ; Gre- 
gory was prior, A.D. 1181 ; but this shrine belongs to the 
15th century : he is lying under an ogee canopy ornamented 
with crockets, and surmounted by a handsome finial. His 
dress differs little from that of a bishop, and he wears the 
mitre. On Ripley's tomb there is no recumbent figure, but 
simply a cross ; and over it, on a shield, a lion rampant. 
In Plate XIV. is the monument of Sir Martin de la See,f 
now in the chancel of Barmston church ; this monument is 
stated in a Bodl. MS. to have been ' brought out of Brel- 
lington.' 



Filey Church is one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical 
buildings in this part of the country. The architecture is 
Norman and early English, without any mixture of later 
styles— (See Plate XIII.) It is a cross church, with a 
tower in the centre, and consists of a nave, transepts, chan- 
cel, and south porch. The length of the church is 131 feet, 
and of the transepts 69 feet. The nave, which is the most 

* The only ancient monuments now remaining in the abbey church, at 
Selby, are two knights and a lady, and a slab tor Abbot Selby, A. D. 1504. 
The ancient wooden stalls remain in the choir. — See Cooke's Topography of 
Yorkshire, p. 217. 

f See Appendix R. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 51 

ancient part of the building, consists of six arches ; the 
piers are alternately circular and octagonal with plain caps, 
except the two most western, which are clustered like the 
four which support the tower, and from their unfinished 
appearance at top it would seem that a western tower or 
towers had at some time been projected ; but there is no in- 
dication of it outside. The west end has only one plain 
lancet window. The clerestory windows are very small semi- 
circular headed lights. The arches of the nave pointed ; 
but the arch of the south door semicircular and without orna- 
ment. The east window has been filled with some poor per- 
pendicular tracery ; but the semicircular dripstone remains 
on the outside : below it are three brackets for statues. The 
chancel has four beautiful early English lancets on the south 
side : there has been one on the north side, as well as doors 
on both sides the chancel which are now walled up. On the 
south side of the altar is a piscina, and three trefoil headed 
niches with quatre-foils in the spandrils. The wooden screen 
between the nave and chancel is almost entirely decayed. 
There is a large chalk-stone slab in the middle of the 
chancel floor with an inscription round the margin, now so 
defaced as to be nearly illegible. The date 1603 upon it, 
determines it to be subsequent to the Reformation. There is 
also a tattered escutcheon on the north wall, impaling the 
arms of Buck and Lutton. In the north transept is a trefoil 
headed piscina. The clustered columns and high pointed 
arches which support the tower are very similar to those in 
Bridlington church, and there is some good work about the 
belfry windows inside. The tower is furnished with four 
bells. An ornamental moulding of Norman character is 
continued round under the exterior parapet of the church. 

Flamborough Church. — The antiquity of this village 
as a Danish, if not a Roman settlement, and the remains of 
its ancient castle at no great distance from the church, 
(see Plate XIII.,) would lead us to expect marks of a much 

e 2 



04 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

higher antiquity than the present building can lav claim to. 
The general character of its windows is the debased Gothic, 
being flat-headed and usually of three lights with ogee 
arches. There has been a west porch, and perhaps a tower 
at that end. The font is ancient, and much resembles that 
of Barmston, (see Plate XII.) Ft wauls, however, the or- 
nament of circular arches at the base. The church consists 
of a nave and chancel, with aisles to each. There are three 
arches in the nave, with octagonal piers and clerestory win- 
dows. The chance] is separated from the nave by a wooden 
screen, over which are the remains of the ancient rood-loft. 
(See Plate XIV.) The workmanship ofthis screen belongs 
to the 15th century, and is extremely rich. It has for- 
merly been painted and gilded. It contains fourteen niches 
with tine canopies, and ten arches below filled with excellent 
tracery. The only ancient part of the church is a circular 
arch over the rood loft, the pillars of which have Norman 
tinted capitals. On the north side oi' the altar affixed to 
some uood tabernacle work, remaining on both sides oi' the 
chancel, is a brass plate with a curious inscription of some 
length in old English text in metre/ recording the warlike 
exploits of Sir Marmaduke Constable, who lived in the time 
of Edward the Fourth, and Henry the Seventh and Eighth; 
over it is a shield, on which the arms oi' Constable are im- 
paled with those oi' Station! of Grafton. This brass plate 
has been taken from an altar tomb now hidden under tlu* 
wall of the vestry. Opposite, in the south aisle, is another 
altar tomb, which lias formerly had an inscription on a brass 
label round the margin. Upon it lies the trunk oi' an ema- 
ciated figure rudely executed and much defaced ; but 
whether it originally belonged to this tomb seems doubtful. 
Near it. at the east end oi' the south aisle, is a mural monu- 
ment, inscribed to the memory of " that learned and pious 
gentleman, Walter Strickland," who died in November, 

* See Appendix Q. 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 53 

1671, and Left 2,000/. towards purchasing the lordship of 
Flambro' for liis family, in whose possession it still remains. 

In the same aisle are several monuments belonging 1o the 

Ogle Family : " .John Ogle, who died in 1005, came from 
Northumberland, and settled at Ulambro' about the middle 
of the 10th century, where some of his descendants stil^ 

continue to reside." There is also a mural monument in 
memory of . John Nates, who died in 1764. Over the altar 
table is a monument in memory of " Robert VVilsl'ord, some- 
time Impropriator of this Parish, who died lOfli -May, 
1784:" and another in memory of " the Rev. Montague 
Hebblethwayte, B.D., formerly Fellow of St. John's Col- 
lege, Cambridge; Vicar of Sunninghill, Berks; and Mini- 
ster of Flambro'; who died February 4th, 1817." 

BeMPTON CHURCH consists of a nave and chancel, with 
south porch, and a tower at the west end. The south door 
arch is semicircular, with ornamented capitals. The nave 
consists of lour very low piers, irregularly octagonal or cir- 
cular; the arches are semicircular. There are the remains 
of a decorated window at the east end; but the chancel has 

been so repaired and modernized wiih brick, that but little 

of the original wall remains. Then; have been some old 
seats in the chancel, which is open to the rafter roof, and 
some of the beams have been ornamented with rudely 
painted flowers. In the centre of the floor of the nave there 
is an ancient flat monumental stone with a cross upon it. 
The font is in shape like that of Bridlington. 

Speeton Chapel is only an oblong room. The east end 
is used as a school, and there is a fire-place in it. On the 
north side are two trefoil-headed recesses. There is a very 
broad semi-circular arch about the middle; of the chapel. 
In the chancel, if it may be so called, are two pews. On 
the south side, near the pulpit, is a window ; the scats are 
open benches, the floor very ill paved. The font a plain 
stone basin. 



54 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

Grindal Chapel is much like Speeton; the nave and 
chancel are lighted each by one small window on the south ; 
the chancel is paved with brick. The floor of the nave is 
covered with sea-gravel, except that a line of flag stones 
runs through it between the two rows of benches. The font 
is a plain stone basin. 

Fraisthorpe Chapel is much the same as the two just 
described, than which it is hardly possible to conceive more 
wretched buildings appropriated as places of public wor- 
ship. 

Auburn Chapel no longer exists, having been pulled 
down by license from the Archbishop of York, when it was 
likely, owing to the encroachments of the sea, to share the 
fate o{' the rest of the village. 

Bessingby Chapel is a modem brick edifice, very neatly 
fitted up. There is a mural tablet on the north side of the 
chancel, in memory of John Hudson, Esq., who died in 
1 772 ; and pn the opposite wall an elegant monument by 
Wyatt, in memory of the late Lady Anne Hudson, who died 
in 1818 : there is also another tablet in memory of her hus- 
band, Harrington Hudson, Esq., who died in 1826. 

Carnaby Church consists of a nave, chancel, and south 
aisle. The north aisle appears to have been taken down, 
and the north wall, as well as the chancel, rebuilt with brick. 
The font is ancient and curiously ornamented, (see Plate 
XII.) A flat stone in the chancel is rather oddly inscribed 
to "Mr. Francis Vickerman, Esq., a lover of learning and a 
pattern of piety, A. D. 1616." Another tablet belonging to 
some of his family, with the letters 'erman' on it, has been 
broken and placed with another fragment of a tomb-stone, in 
memory of Mistress Annas, wife of — Boynton Esq., who died 
A. D. 1623. Thi' nave is di\ ided from the south aisle by five 
octagonal piers, the caps are ornamented with a very minute 
border of the toothed moulding, and in the south aisle are 
two pair o{^ small lancet windows. The door arch of the 



ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 5.0 

south porch is semi-circular, and quite plain. The tower 
at the west end is perpendicular, and very like that of the 
neighbouring church of Boynton. (See views of both these 
churches, Plate XV.) 

Boynton Church. — The tower of this church is a good 
specimen of perpendicular. The nave and chancel have 
been rebuilt, and are neatly fitted up. There is, however, 
some appearance of that confusion between the Grecian and 
Gothic styles, from which the beautiful interior of Beverley 
Minster has only recently been freed, and which was so 
prevalent during the last century. In the space behind the 
altar are several monuments of the Strickland family. In 
the east window is some painted glass, and the date of the 
rebuilding of the church, 1768. There is an old monument 
in memory of Sir William Strickland, Knt., the first Baronet 
who died Sept. 12, 1673; and his second wife, the Lady 
Frances Finch, daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Winchelsea, 
who died December 17, 1663. Another to the wife of Sir 
Thomas Strickland, (son to the former), Elizabeth, daughter 
of Sir Francis Pyle, Bart., of Compton Beauchamp, in 
Berkshire, who died June 13, 1674. Among the Dods- 
worth MSS. in the Bodleian, the following notices occur 
of some ancient monuments in the old church, before the 
Rebellion : 

" Bointon Church, 14th Nov. 1620. A handsome tombe 
in the north wall in brasse, the portraiture of a man in armor 
kneeling : under, 

I^tc jatet ^Robertas "Netoport Urmiger, qui oblit XXIII. Die JWaii "anno 
Born: M°. CCC. LXXXIII". tufts anlma requieatat in pate, "amen. 

©rate pro anima line ifflargarete uxotis elus que obitt XVIII. We hubs 
Septembris anno ©mi M». CCC. LXXXIII. Cujus ale propftUiur ®tvm. 
%mva. 



56 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION. 

ON A STONE. 

1§tc jactt Stomas Tsktoport a Iclisab't uxor etus filia «t J)crea 3of;s 
ISopnton filii st btreBte 5Bo j . 3&obti. ISognton mtltlis q 1 . ©bos. obtit XV . nit 
Itfobembr. a°. ©°. M°. CCCC . XXIII cruorum antmabus propltietur IBcus. 
"amen. 

ANOTHER STONE. 

3$ic Ja«t SSRills ^croport armtger qui obiit tjcdmo Kie mensis Ttfobcmbrts 
^nno Bo. M°. CCCO. LXXX°. cuius ane propitietur IBeus." 



The following subjects, although not properly contained 
within the prescribed limits of the present work, have been 
introduced into the Plates : Rudston church, (see Plate XVI.) 
and the stone in the church-yard, very like those called the 
deviPs arroivs at Boroughbridge, whose origin has often 
exercised the ingenuity of the antiquary ; the fonts in Rud- 
ston, and Reighton churches ; and the ornamented Norman 
door at Kilham church.* 

* See Appendix R. 



APPENDIX 



APPENDIX. 



EXTRACT FROM BISHOP TANNERS NOTITIA MONASTICA. 



[ Burlington or Bridlington, olim Brellinton or Berlintona, in the Deanry 
of Dykoring and Archdeaconry of East Riding.] 

Vide in Mon. Angl. torn. 2. p. 1G1. Cartam fundationis. p. 162. 
Cartas duas Gilbert! de Gaunt Corn. Lincoln. Cartam. R. Hen. I, 
donatorum concessiones recitantem et confirmantem. P. 163. 
Cartas It. Stephani, de portu de Bridlington ; R. Hen. 2. con- 
firm, donationes. P. 164. Cartas Joannis fil. Joannis de Harp- 
ham, de medietat. eccl. de Twenge ; R. fil. Hernisii, pro eccl. de 
Gausla ; Walteri de Ver, pro eccl. de Sprottle ; Matildis filia? 
Steph. Com. Britannia?, pro eccl. de Swaldale, cum Gronton ; 
Roberti de Gaunt pro pastur. et herbagio in Swaldale ; Radulphi 
de Nevil, conced. petram in petraria de Fivele ad fabricam mo- 
nasterii ; Bullam P. lnnocentii 3. contra Archidiac. Richmondiac 
visitantem ecclesiam quandam ad hunc Prioratum spectantem, 
cum 97 equis, 21 canibus &c. P. 166. Procuratorium Joannis 
de Nevile in appellatione contra Priorem et Conv. in causA deci- 
marum de Edenham. 

Registrum honoris de Richmond, p. 44. de carucata terra? in 
Grynton ; p. 57. de sex bovatis terra? in Mikel Couton cum 
Smetbon ; et in Append, p. 32. de quatuor bovatis terra? et una 
salina in Holbech. 



60 APPENDIX. 

Ryleii Plac. Parliam. p. 131. 172. 627. 
Year Books 22. 19. 19 Hen. 6. Hill. 16. 
Dugdale's Warwickshire, edit. 1730. p. 585. of the church of 
Whichford, for a short time belonging to this Priory. 
Rymeri Conventionum, Feeder. &c. torn. 8. p. 161. 
Prynne's Records, vol. 3. p. 864. claus. 28. Ed. 1. m. 17. 
p. 1192. pat. 35 Ed. 1. m. 6. pro appropriation eccl. de 
Gousle [Lincoln, dicec] 

In Append, ad Stevensii vol. 2. p. 337. Cartam Walteri de 
Ver, donantis eccl. de Gousle, ex Hearnii notis in Guil. Neubr. 
p. 714. Cartam R. Stephani donantis carucatam et dimid. terrae 
ex dominio ejus in Estona, et dimid. carucat. ex dominio in Hil- 
dertorpe, et confirm, donationes aliorum. P. 338. abbreviatur. 
plurimar. donationum : Sententiam Officialis Archidiaconi Rich- 
mondiae, de ecclesiis de Couton et Grenton conventui de Brid- 
lington appropriatis, A. D. 1319. 

Registrum hujus Prioratus olim penes Will. Ingleby mil. modo 
penes dom. Joannem Ingleby equ. aur. 1697.* 
Cartularium penes Ric. Malleverer Bar. 
Registrum penes Walterum Clavell arm. 

Computos, rentalia, &c. in baga. intit. Bridlington in superiori 
area quintae arcae in officio Curiae Augmentations. 

Inter MSS. collect. V. cl. Rog. Dodsworth. in Bibl. Bodl. 

* Bridlington Register Book. — The following information has been 
received through the medium of Sir William Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley, in 
whose possession this valuable and curious record at present remains. It 
is not known when, or by what means, the MS. came into the hands of the 
Ingilby family. It is called the Bridlington Coucher, or Register Book, 
and is a very thick, small-sized folio, plainly written on parchment in ab- 
breviated monkish Latin, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, and is in a 
state of excellent preservation. It consists chiefly of various deeds of gift 
of parcels of lands, &c, to the Priory Church of Bridlington from different 
persons in Yorkshire, more particularly confined to the East Riding and 
Holdermess ; together with a great number of ' quit-claims,' {quieta-clama- 
tiones,) with regard to various kinds of rights, privileges, and property. 

From this ancient document the elaborate and minute account of the 
possessions of the Priory of Bridlington, given by Burton, in his Monasticon 
Eboracense, is almost entirely derived. 



APPENDIX Gl 

Oxon. Cartarum quamplurimarum ad hunc Prioratum spectan- 
tium ineditarum apographa. vol. 7. f. 11. 128. 168. 213. 230. 
246. 247. 260. 264. 274. 275. 294. 308. 309. 310. 311. 317. 
330. 331. vol. 8. f. 119. 213. vol. 9. a f. 139 ad 155. vol. 76. 
f. 147. vol. 118. f. 68. Mr. Gascoign's notes from the Coucher 
of Bridlington, vol. 159. f. 130. ex Cartulario Monasterii de 
Bridlington in custodia Jacobi Bellingham de Levens in com. 
Westm. mil. 1627. Ibid. f. 174. ex cartis in cista de Bridling- 
ton in turre B. Marise Ebor. 

Cottonian Library, Aug. 11. 53. 

In Registro Joannis Romani Archiepisc. Ebor. f. 68. ordina- 
tionem vicariae in eccl. de M. Cowton huic Prioratui appropriata : 
in Registro Gul. Grenefeld. Archiepisc. p. 11. f. pronunciatio- 
nem super appropriatione ecclesiarum de Bridlington, Flayn- 
burgh, Kerneleby, Oteringham, Fyfle, Attynwyke, Bovington, 
Galmeton, Willarby, et Scaleby, priori et conv. de Bridlington, 
A. D. 1310. Ibid. f. 119. inhibitionem adorationis cujusdam 
imaginis B. Mariae in monasterio de Bridlington : in registro 
Alex. Nevile. Archiepisc. f. 99. vel 100. commissionem ad cog- 
noscendum de miraculis ad tumbam Joannis de Tweng prioris de 
Bridlington, examinand. testes, &c 26 Jun. A. D. 1386. 

Fin. Ebor. 1 Joan. n. 3. de advoc. medietat. eccl. de Bidford, 
n . . pro 10 bovatis terrae in Rednes : Cart. 2 Joan. m. 18. n. 61. 
pro mercat. et feria apud Bridlington : oblat. 2 Joan. m. I 9. pro 
eisdem : Fin. Ebor. 4 Joan, de terris in Beverle. 

Fin. Ebor. 10 Hen. 3. n. 133. de terris in Brunthon : Fin. 
Ebor. 14 Hen. 3. n. 77. 84. de bovata terra in Caton : Plac. 
apud Ebor. 15 Hen. 3. rot. 3. d. de eadem : Fin. Ebor. 20 Hen. 3. 
n. 199. 235. de eadem: Fin. Ebor. 24 Hen. 3. n. 11. de com- 
mun. turbariae in marisco de Wilarby : Fin. Ebor. 33 Hen. 3. 
m. de advoc. eccl. de Beford : Ibid. n. 85. de bovata terrae in 
Flotmanby : Plac. assis. apud Ebor. 52 Hen. 3. rot. 11. d. 27. 
51. 65. pro tertia parte duarum partium maner. de Bridlington : 
Fin. Ebor. 52 Hen. 3. n. 53. pro medietat. feodi. mil. in Brid- 
lington. 

Fin. Ebor. 5 Ed. 1. n. 48. pro mess, et terris in Killum : 
Plac. assis. apud. Ebor. 8. Ed. 1. rot. 31 d. pro 22 toftis in 



62 APPENDIX. 

Bridlington : Pat. 13 Ed. 1. m. Plac. assis. apud Ebor. 14 Ed. 1. 
rot. 5. d. rot. 7 et 58 de serviciis tenendum in Frakisthorp : 
Cart. 18 Ed. 1. n. 32. pro lib. war. in maner. et pro mercat. et 
feria apud Bridlington : Pat. 18 Ed. 1. m. 11. de terris in West 
Askham: Plac. de quo war. 21 Ed. 1. rot. 29. allocat. libertat. 
in Bessingby etc. Plac. 27 Ed. 1. rot. 65. Pat. 29 Ed. 1. m. 4 
vel 5. Pat. 32 Ed. 1. m. Fin. Ebor. 32 Ed. I. n. 60. de prato 
in West Askham: Pat. 33 Ed. 1. p. 1. m. 1 vel 2. p. 2. m- 
Pat. 34. Ed. 1. m. Pat. 35. Ed. 1. m. 6". 

Pat. 2. Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 1 et 14. Pat. 4. Ed. 2. p. 1. m. 5. 
Cart. 5. Ed. 2. n. 19. Pat. 5. Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 14etl6. Pat. 12. 
Ed. 2. p. 2. m. 6. Claus. 16. Ed. 2. n. 18. 

Pat. 5. Ed. 3. p. 2. m. Pat. 12 Ed. 3. p. 3. m. 4 vel 5. 
Pat. 16 Ed. 3. p. 2. m. 29 vel 30. Claus. 20 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 9. 
Pat. 20 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 36. de libertat. in soca de Scalby ra- 
tione terr. in Cloughton. Pat. 26 Ed. 3. p. 1. m. 3. pro ten. in 
Sywardby, Burton etc. Ibid p. 2. m. 24. 

Pat. 1. Ric. 2. p. 1. m. 26. pro ten. in Eston, Louthorp, etc. 
Pat. 11. Ric. 2. p. 2. m. pro Kernelatione prioratus : Pat. 
12 Ric. 2. p. 2. m. 26 pro ten. in Bessingby, Fraythorp, New- 
ton, etc. Brev. orig. 15 Ric. 2. rot. 34. Cart. 15 Ric. 2. n. 26. 
Rec. in scacc. 19 Ric. 2. Mich. rot. 14. 

Pat. 2 Hen. 4. p. 1. m. 21. confirm, wreccum maris et alias 
libertates: Ibid. p. 4. m. 15. pro ten. in Welthorp et Bucton : 
Fin. Ebor. 4 Hen. 4. n. . de 22/. 2s. 9c?. ann. reddit. in Brid- 
lington: Pat. 8 Hen. 4. p. 1. m. 8. pro eccl. de Scardeburgh. 

Rec in scacc. 1. Hen. 5. Mich. rot. 12. Pat. 1. Hen. 5. p. 4. 
m. 9 vel 14. Pat. 9 Hen. 5. p. 1. m.24. 

Pat. 20 Hen. 6. p. 1. m. 4 vel 5. Cart. 21 Hen. 6. n. 5. 
Pat. 23 Hen. 6. p. 2. m. 21 vel 22. Cart. 24 Hen. 6. n. 6. 
Cart. 25 vel 26 Hen. 6. n. 15. Cart. 27 Hen. 6. n. 26. Cart. 
30 Hen. 6. n. 26. Rec. in scacc. 33 Hen. 6. Mich. rot. 5. 

Pat. 1. Ed. 4. p. 3. m. 15. Pat. 5 Ed. 4. p. 3. m. 19. Rec. 
in scacc. 8 Ed. 4. Mich. rot. 6. 



APPENDIX. 63 

B. 

EXTRACT FROM DOOMSDAY BOOK. ART. EVRVISCIRE. 

k 

In Bretlinton cu. n. berew. Hilgertorp i, Wiflestorp sunt ad 

_ cim a 

gld. xin. carucatae. qs poss. arare vn carucae. H tenuit 

— or 
Morcar #. i. manerio. Ne. e in rnanu regis, et suA. ibi mi. 

burgenses censii reddentes. Pti ae. vm. iEccla. i. Tot 

k k — <t k 

maner. n. lev. Ig. i, dimid lev. lat. T. R. E. ual. xxxn. 

— o _ 

lib. m. vm. sol. 

4 _ t, vi. c' viii. c' 

Ad h maner. ptinet soca haru traru. Martone. Basinghebi. 

v ?I dim. c* mi 

Estone. Bouintone. ^ alia Bouint. Grendele. Spretone. Bo- 

v Ilir I II I vii 

chetone. Fleustone. Stactone. Foxele. Elestolf. Galmeton. 

y (j 7 di™ u 

Widlafeston. Int oms sunt ad gld. lviii* carucatae qs. possu 

o _ ... . u 

arare. xxx carucae. M. suiv ibi in. uilli. ^i Sochem. cu. i. 

k k 

car. 1, dim. Caetera Wasta. [Vol. i. p. 2996. in Mus. Brit.'] 

EXPLANATIONS FROM ELLIs's INTRODUCTION. 

Caruca, plough and team ; carucala, team's tillage ;* lev'*, 
leugce, leagues ; soca, liberty or jurisdiction ; uilli, villani, 
villeins; sochem^ sochemannus, socman, a privileged villein, 
who, though his tenure was absolutely copyhold, yet had an 
interest equal to freehold. The above extract may, therefore, 
be thus translated : — 

" Yorkshire. In Bretlington, with its two hamlets, Hilgertorp 
and Wiflestorp, there are 13 carucates liable to taxation, 
which 7 teams are able to plough. Morcar held this as one 
manor. It is now in the hands of the king : and there are 
there 4 burgesses paying tax : 8 acres of meadow land, and 

* An oxgang is a variable quantity of land, seldom less than ten, or more 
than twenty acres, but generally containing about twelve acres. Eight or 
ten oxgangs make a carucate of land, and ten carucates are deemed to be a 
knight's fee. — See Preface to Charlton's History of Whitby. 



64 APPENDIX. 

one church. The whole manor is two leagues long, and half a 
league broad. In the time of King Edward the Confessor, it 
was valued at xxxn pounds : at present only vni shillings. 
"To this manor belongs the liberty of these lands, Martone, Ba- 
singbebi, Estone, Bouintone, and another Bouintone, Grendele, 
Spretone, Bochetone, Fleustone, Stactone, Foxele, Elestolf, 
Gabnetone, Widlafestone. In all there are 58 carucates liable 
to taxation, which 30 teams are able to plough. At present 
there are there 3 villeins, and one socman with one carucate 
and a half. The rest is waste." 



PEDIGREE OF GANT. 



Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, and nephew 
to William the Conqueror, the pious restorer of Bardney 
Abbey, Com. Line, utterly destroyed by the Danes, died in 
the time of William Rufus. He possessed fifty-four Lordships 
in several counties, at the time of the Norman Survey, one of 
which was Folkingham, in Lincolnshire, from which he took 
the title of Baron Folkingham. 

Walter de Gant * succeeded in the barony, and died 4th Stephen. 
He was a person of great humanity and piety, who, when an 
aged man and near his death, commanded a body of Flemings 
and Normans in that famous battle against the Scots, near 
Northallerton, in Yorkshire, called ' Bellum Standardi ;' where, 
by his eloquent speech and prudent conduct, the enemy received 
a total overthrow. 

Gilbert de Gant, taken prisoner with King Stephen at the fatal 
battle of Lincoln, and compelled by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, 
to marry his niece Avis, daughter of William de Romare, Earl 

* In Leland's Collectanea, vol. iii. p. 35, the foundation of the Priory of 
Bridlington is thus noticed : ' Gualterus de Gaunt Alius Gisbrichti de Gaunt 
erexit ccenobium Canonicorum Bridlingodunensium.' 



APPENDIX. 65 

of Lincoln, which title he gained in right of his wife : he died 

without male issue. 

Gilbert, his great nephew, succeeded to the title ; and dying 

without issue in the time of Edward I., constituted the King 

his heir. 

Old English Peerage, ed. 1711. vol. ii. part 2. 



CARTJE AD PRIOKATUM DE BRIDLINGTON IN AGRO EBORACENSI 
SPECTANTES. 

1. Carta Fundationis Monasterii de Bridlington temp. Hen. I. 

R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. vol. ix. fol. 139. et vol. x. 

fol. 150. Carta Fundationis Abbathiae de Bridlington 

Ebor. ibid, vol. cvm. fol. 161. Carta Fundationis ejus- 

dem. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de Brid. 

" Ego Walterus de Gant notifico omnibus sanctse ecclesiae 

fidelibus, quod in ecclesia sanctae Marias de Bredlintona Canoni- 

cos Regulares stabilivi, ex praecepto et consensu regis Henrici^ 

pro anima ejus, et pro animabus patris et matris ejus, et pro 

animabus patris et matris meae, et anima mea, et amicorum meo- 

rum ; concedo igitur eidem ecclesiae, et servitoribus ejus, quic- 

quid habui in eadem villa, videlicet tresdecem carucatas terrae, 

cum molendinis, quae eidem terrae adjacent ; terras quoque illas, 

quas homines mei dederunt ipsi ecclesiae concedo ; videlicet Willi- 

elmus constabularius unam carucatam terrae in Besyngebi ; 

Forno in eadem villa duas bovatas ; Machernus in Hildertrop 

duas bovatas ; Radulphus Buch, et Gocelinus filius ejus, in Estona 

duas bovatas dederunt ; Radulphus in Grendala dedit quatuor 

bovatas ; Gozo in Bucetona, concessione Alani filii sui, dedit 

quatuor bovatas ; Malgerus in Richetona quatuor bovatas. Et 

insuper dedi eidem ecclesiae et servitoribus suis Canonicis, eccle- 

siam de Edenham, et aliam de Witham, et dimidiam ecclesiae de 

Sut-ferebi, et Ecclesiam de Fivilai, cum molendino uno ; et eccle- 

siam de Swaldala, ecclesiam quoque de Willerdebi, et aliam de 

Galmetona, quas Adelarus venator dedit, concessit Henrici filii 



GG APPENDIX. 

sui, concede Has omnes terras, et ecclesias, cum terris, quae iis 
adjacent, concedo iis solutas et quietas ab omni geldo et omnibus 
consuetudinibus praeter geldum Regis, videlicet Danegeldum. Hiis 
testibus Turstino, Arcbiepiscopo ; Alano de Perci ; Eustachio filio 
Jobannis ; Jordano Pagnel ; Willielmo constabulario : Lamberto 
constabulario ; Willielmo de Mundavilla, Radulpbo de Novavilla, 
Willielmo de Perci, Radulpbo de Grendala, et Radulpho filio 
ejus, Gocelino Buch, Malgero de Ergbom, Wimundo capellano, 
Richardo pincerna, et Girardo fratre ejus, Roberto de Ropesle, 
Waltero de Calce ; et superaddo etiam eis ecclesiam de Elthes- 
dona cum eadem libertate, quam in supra dictis ecclesiis habent."* 

* In a note to Tanner's Notitia it is remarked that this charter does not 
seem so much the charter of an original foundation as a grant to a monastery 
already existing. We have already noticed the probability of a Nunnery, 
or some other religious establishment existing at Bridlington, prior to the 
Conquest, and this conjecture derives additional force from the following 
remarks extracted from a very ancient pedigree, in Latin, probably the 
work of some monk, relating to the families of the Eures and Vescys, and 
now in the possession of Sir William Strickland of Boynton, Bart. This 
ancient record contains the line of English kings, from William the Con- 
queror downwards ; Henry VI. being the last whose name occurs. He 
succeeded to the crown, A.D. 1422, and the birth of his son Edward, 
A.D. 1453, is the latest date mentioned. At the top of the pedigree the 
five following personages are placed as contemporaries, with a rudely painted 
likeness of each in a circular border, and their respective armorial bearings. 

1. William the Conqueror. 

2. Malcolm, King of Scotland. 

3. Gisbright Tison. (a) 

4. de Gant(b) (the former word is destroyed in the MS.) 

5. William de Percy, (c) 

(a) The author of the pedigree has the following remarks : " Iste Gis- 
brightus Tison fuit dominus de Bridlington, Watton, Malton, et Alnewike. 
Et ut a quibnsdam scriptis invenitur fuit fundator Abbathiarum de Bridlington, 
de Watton, de Malton, et de Alnewike. Sed verius mihi videtur et arbitror, 
quod successores ejus fundaverunt praedicta monasteria pro anima ejus, 
dictus est eorum fundator, non ejus facto sed successorum devotione, ut 
inferius manifestabitur. Iste autem Gisbrightus genuit W m . Tison et Ri- 
cardum Tison. W ms . Tison, corruit in hello contra Haraldum Angliae 
invasorem." Richard Tyson was the founder of Gisborough Priory. 

(b) As son to 4 stands Gilbert de Gant, founder of Bridlington Priory, with 
a very rough .sketch of Bridlington church. 



APPENDIX. (37 

2. Carta Regis Henrici 1. plurimas Donatorum concessiones 
recitans et confirmans. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de 
Bridl. fol. 159. 

u In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. 

Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, 
Principibus, Baronibus, et universis ridelibus totius Angliae Cle- 
ricis et Laicis, Francis et Anglis, tarn presentibus quam futuris 
salutem. Quoniam ad hoc a superna potestate regalis celsitudi- 
nem potestatis accepimus, ut in Ecclesia. Dei potentiam nostram 
juste pariter et misericorditer exerceamus, visum est nobis, ut 
non solum sub nostra tuitione et munimine ab infestantium ma- 
licia. atque calumnia tueatur, verum etiam ad suarum sustenta- 
tionem necessitudinum nostri muneris liberalitate foveatur. Prae- 
cipue ver6 illis haec facere debemus, qui voluntariam subeuntes 
paupertatem sub regular! disciplina Domino militare decreverunt, 
ut, secundum Apostolum, ex nostra opulentia eorum suppleatur 
indigentia, et nos eorum interventu in aeterna recipiamur taber- 
nacula. Damns itaque et sub praesentis hujus Cartas nostrae 
priveligio atque attestatione confirmanus Ecclesiae S. Mariae de 
Brellintona et Canonicis Regularibus Domino ibidem servienti- 
bus, duas carucatas terrae ex meo dominio,* quarum una et di- 
midia est in Estona, dimidia vero in Hildertorp, solutas et quietas 
ab omni gehlo, et omnibus consuetudinibus. Castera vero quae 
a Waltero de Gant et a Jordano Paganel vel ab aliis Baronibus 
et Vavasoribus -j- meis data sunt praedictae Ecclesiae, et in hujus 

(c) From a MS. in the Harleian. Collection, it appears that the families 
of Gaunt and Percy were early connected. This MS. professes to he taken 
from the Register of Whitby Abbey, of which William Lord Percy was the 
founder, whose son Alayne Percy married Emme Gawnt, and had a son 
William. 

" The wife of the Founder of Whitby Abbey was Emme Lady of Semer and 
Skarburgh afore the Conquest, and of other lands, William Conqueror gave 
to Syr William Percy for his good Service, and he wedded her that was very 
heir to them in discharging of his conscience." 

The arms of the family of Gaunt appear in Hunmanby Church among 
those of the ancient Lords of that Manor, where they had formerly ;'. 
Castle. 

* Demesne, lordship. f Vassals. 



68 APPENDIX. 

Cartae nostra? paging continentur concedimus, atque ejusde 
Cartae auctoritate confirmamus,"* &c. 



ra 



3. Bulla Calixti II. Papa? eadem confirmans. ex R. de B. 

fol. 324. Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. ix. fol. 148. 

et Vol. clix. fol. 172. ex chartularis de B. 
M Calixtus Episcopus, Servus servorum Dei, Guikemanno Priori 
et Fratribus in Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae, quae Bridlingtonia sita 
est, Regularem vitam professis, tarn praesentibus quam futuris, 
imperpetuum. Austri terram inhabitantibus, per prophetam, 
Dominus precepit, cum panibus occurrere fugienti. Idcirco vos, 
filii in Xristo Karissimi, de seculo fugientes, gratanter excipimus 
et vestris (per venerabilem fratrem nostrum Turstinum Eborum 
Archiepiscopum) petitionibus annuentes, per Sancti Spiritus 
gratiam, Sedis Apostolicas munimine confovemus. Vitae nam que 
Canonicae Ordinem, quern, secundum beati Augustini Regulam, 
professi estis, praesentis privilegii auctoritate firmamus, et ne cui, 
post professionem exbibitam, proprium quid habere, neve, sine 
Prions vel Congregationis licentia, de Claustro descedere liceat, 
interdicimus. Praeterea vobis vestrisque successoribus, in eadem 
religione mansuris, ea omnia perpetud possidenda sancimus, quae 
in praesentia pro communis victus sustentatione legitime pos- 
sidere videmini. Universa etiam, quae, in futura, concessione 
Pontificum, liberalitate principum, oblatione fidelhim vel aliis 
justis modis poteritis adipisci, quieta semper et integra conser- 
ventur, eorum per quorum sustentationem ac gubernacionem 
adquisita sunt usibus omnimodis profutura. Nulli igitur om- 
nino hominum facultas sit eandem ecclesiam temere perturbare, 
aut ejus possessionibus auferre vel ablatas retinere, minuere, vel 
temerariis vexationibus fatigare. Si quis autem, quod absit, huic 
nostro Decreto contraire temptaverit, honoris et officii sui pericu- 
lum patiatur, aut excommunicationis ultione plectatur, nisi prae- 
sumptionem suam digna satisfactione correxerit. Quicunque 
vero ipsum locum et in eo Domini servientes fovere, suisque 



* Here follows a recitation of the several grants of the Founder, for 
which the reader is referred to the Foundation Charter. 



APPENDIX. G9 

rebus honorare curaverit, omnipotentis Dei et Apostolorum ejus 
benedictionem et gratiam consequantur. Amen." 

4. Carta Regis Stephani de confirmatione Fundationis Priora- 

tus de Birlington. Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. 
xxxn. fol. 20. 

5. Carta Regis Stephani, de Portu de Bridlingtona. Dugd. Mon. 

Ang : ibid. R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. Vol. ix. fol. 140. 
" Stephanus Rex Anglise Comiti* Eboracensi etministris suis 
salutem. Mando vobis, quod permittatis Priorem de Bridlintona 
bene et in pace tenere et habere portum suum de Bridlintona, 
sicut Walterus de Gant, et Gilbertus pater suus, ilium melius 
tenuerunt aliquo tempore, ne super hoc fiat ei injuria vel con- 
tumelia. Et faciatis omnes ibidem applicantes f juste habere 
pacem meam, ne aliquis eos injuste disturbet neque infests." 

6. Carta Gilberti Comitis (Lincolnise) de Terris de dono Wal- 

teri de Gaunt Fundatoris, et donum ejusdem de Burton 
(Fleming), Besynby, Hilderthorp, Willesthorp, Barton, et 
Fordon. Dugd. Mon. Ang : et Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dods- 
worth. Vol. ix. fol. 143. et Vol. cvm. fol. 101. 

7. Carta ejusdem. de pastura ad 50 oves in campo de Hunde- 

manbi. Dugd. Mon. Ang : et R. Dodsworth's Bodl. 
MSS. Vol. ix. fol. 145. 

8. Carta Regis Henrici IT. de confirm, fundationis. Dugd. 

Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. et R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. 
Vol. ix. fol. 150. et Vol. clix. fol. 171. ex Chartulario 
deB. fol. I. b. 

The following Abstraot of Henry the Second's Charter, maij serve 
to show the extent of the earlier possessions of the Monastery .- 
'Henricus Secundus confirmat ecclesiae de Bridlington dona- 
tionem Henrici Regis Angliae, Avi sui, ' de duabus carucatis 
terra? de dominio suo, quarum una et dimidia est in Estona, di- 
midia vero in Hilderthorp;' praeterea concedit eis omnes dona- 
tiones, quae eis rationabiliter factae sunt. 

" Ex dono Walteri de Gaunt tredecem carucatas terra? in 
* Sheriff. f Applicare navem. 



70 APPENDIX. 

Berlintona, et Ecclesiam de Fyneley, et Ecclesiam de Edynham, 
et ecclesiam de Wytham, et dimidiam ecclesiaa de Sutferriby et 
ecclesiam de Elkestona et eccl. de Swaldala. 

" Ex dono Comitis Gilberti de Gaunt totam villam de Bes- 
syngby, cum omnibus eidem villa? pertinentibus in Hilderthorp 
et Forduna, et cum servitio Lamberti filii Willi, de una carucata 
tre in Bartona, et tres carucatas tre in Spetona, quas Willus 
filius Lamberti de eo tenuit, et in eadem villa servitium Tetionis 
de tribus carucatis tre, et quicquid idem Gilbertus habuit in 
dominio suo in prato de Ravenclyf, et Burtonam cum omnibus 
pertinentibus suis, tarn in dominio Comitis Gilberti, quam in 
servitiis erorum, qui in eadem villa tenebant, et eccl. de Baem- 
burg, et in eadem villa unam carucatam, et servitia Ministrorum 
Comitis Gilbti, qui terras de ipso tenebant. 

' Ex dono Rogeri de Molbraio unam carucatam tre in Frais- 
tingthorp, et dimidiam carucatam tre in Martona, 

" Ex dono Robti de Withvilla unam carucatam tie in Scire- 
burna. 

" Ex dono Willi de Percy unum carucatam tie in Newtona. 

" Ex dono Willi filii Nigelli eccl. de Fflainburg. 

Eustacliius filius Joins in dedicatione istius eccl. concessit unam 
bovatam terrse. 

" Ex dono Eustacbii filii Johls eccl. de Scallebi, et eccl. de 
Cutona. 

" Ex dono Everardi de Ros eccl. de Attingwike. 

' Ex dono Galfri Dispensatoris eccl. de Bovingtona. In Carta 
Hair. I. Steph. co. Alber marie dedit. 

" Ex dono Adelardi Venatoris eccl. de Willardebi, et eccl. de 
Galmeton. 

" Ex dono Radi. de Gousla eccl. de Sproteley. 

" Ex dono Robti de Percy eccl. de Kernetbi. 

" Ex dono Jordan! Paganelli unam carcutam tre. in Brellintona, 

" Ex dono Radi. Bucb 2. bovat. tre. in Estona. 

" Ex dono Radi de Grendala 4. bov. tre in Grendala. 

" Ex dono Golfonis 4 bov. tie in Buctona. 
' Ex dono Malgeri 4 bov. tre in Richtona. 

" Ex dono Morcari 2 bov. tre in Bemptona 



APPENDIX. 71 

" Ex dono Willi, de Moion eccl. de Wichforda. 

' Ex dono Willi de Ottringham eccl. de Ottringham. 

* Ex dono Alani de Moncels* duas bov. tre in Winchetona. 

' Ex dono Radi de Gosla 4 bov. tre in Gosla. 

' Ex dono alterius Radi. de Gosla 4 bov. tre in Beforda. 

1 Ex dono Angrimi de Frisco mariscof unam carucat, tr§ in 
Lebretson. 

' Ex dono Anfridi de Flainburg 4 bov. tre in Kilvardebi. 

' Ex dono Walteri de Rutha 2 bov. tre in Rutba. 
Teste R. Epo. Ebor. Archepo. Hillario epo, Cicestr. 
Thoma Cancellario, Johanne Thesaurario. Ebor. 
Dat apud Waltham.' J 

9. Carta Johannis filii Johannis de Harpham, de medietate 
eccl. de Tvvenge. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. 

10. Carta R. filii Hernisii de eccl. de Gausla. Dugd. Mon. 

Ang. ex R. de B. 

11. Carta Walteri de Ver. filii Adae de Gousle de eccl. de 

Sprotelle. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. 

12. Carta Matildis filiae Stephani Consulis Britannia:, uxoris 

Walteri de Gaunt. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Cartulario de 
B. fol. 188. Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth, Vol. ix. fol. 142, 
et Vol. x. fol. 150. 

13. Carta Roberti de Gaunt, donationes Patris et Fratris sui 

confirmans. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Reg. de B. fol. 156. 
Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. x. fol. 150. et Vol. 
cvm. f. 161. 

14. Quod Gilbertus de Gaunt nutritus in Prioratu de Bridling- 

ton locum sepulturae ibidem elegit. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex 
Reg. de B. 

15. Bulla Innocentii III. Papas, contra Archid 1 ". Richmund. Visi- 

tantem cum 97equis, 21 canibus, &c. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex 
Reg. ed B. et R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS., Vol. ix.fol. 149. 

* Monceaux. + Fresh-marsh. 

t Note that all the donations in the preceding confirmation, marked 
thus ("), were confirmed likewise by King Henry the First, grandfather to 
Henry the Second. 



72 APPENDIX. 

16. De Petraria de Fivele. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Cart, de 

Brid. fol. 59. b. 
" Omnibus Christi fidelibus, ad quos prsesens scriptum per- 
venerit Radulphus de Nevill, filius Radulphi de Nevill, salutem. 
Noveritis me dedisse, et hac praesenti Carta mea confirmasse 
Deo, et Ecclesiae, et Canonicis de Bridlintona, petram in petraria 
de Fivele ad fabricam Monasterii sui, et officinarutn suarum 
omnium, ubique illis habendam, et ad sumptus suos fodiendam, 
et capiendam, ubi, quantum, et quando voluerint. Et praeterea 
concessi, quod habeant largam, liberam, et rationabilem viam, 
super falesiam* petrariae per totam longitudinem dictas falesiae, et 
ubique, scilicet, tarn in loco, qui appellatur ' Le Hok' quam alibi, 
ubi possunt petram invenire, cum libero ingressu, et egressu, ad 
carrectasf suas ad predictam petram cariandam. J Et ego et hae- 
redes mei, praedictam petrariam cum rationabili via et aliis perti- 
nentiis, praedictis Canonicis contra omnes homines warantizabiir.us 
in perpetuum, et defendemus. In cujus rei testimonium huic 
scripto sigillum meum apposui Hiis testibus, &c." 

17. Carta Procurations nobilis viri Johannis de Nevile, de 

Grymsthorp. Dugd. Mon. Ang. Ex ipso autogr. in Turri § 
B. Mariae Ebor. 

18. Carta Walteri de Ver, de donatione eccl. de Gousle. Dugd. 

Mon. Ang. ex T. Hearnii notis in Guil. Neubr. p. 714. 

1 9. Sententia Officialis Archidiaconi Richmondiae de eccl. de 

Couton, et de Grenton Conventui de Bridlington appro- 
priatis. Dugd. Mon. Ang. ex Script. Ebor. MS. penes 
Ralph Thoresby Arm. 73. 

20. Carta Henrici ArchepT. Ebor. confirm, eccl. de Kernadebi. 

R. Dodsworth's Bodl. MSS. Vol. vn. fol. 11. 
" Henricus dl gratia dl Eborac. Archiep.|| R. Decano, et Capto 
St. Petr. Eborac s . et omnibus parochianis suis salutem at dl 

* Bank, or down by the sea-side. f Carts. J To carry. 

§ St. Mary's Tower at York, full of ancient records blown up in the civil 
war, A.D. 1644. 

|| Henry Murdac succeeded Archbishop Thurstan, when Robert de Gant 
was Dean of York, about A. D. 1140. 



APPENDIX. 73 

benedictionem. Ad Episcopalem spectat solicitudinem, curas et 
possessiones Ecclesiasticas, et prascipuereligiosis domibus collatas, 
pastorali cura defendere, et auctoritatis suas pagina ad perpetuam 
stabilitatem roborare. Hac ergo consideratione ecclesiam de Ke- 
randbi Canonicis Regularibus Sea* Marias de Berlintona, salvo 
jureEborac. ecclle,et consuetudinibus Episcopalibus, in perpetuam 
elemosinam cum omnibus pertinentibus et capellis suis, confir- 
mamus. In ft testes ; Sauar. Abbas Ebor : Ailreds Abbas de 
Rievall: Robtus Archidiacon 8 : Cuthbrs Prior Giseburnias. Gaufrid 5 
Prior de Kirkeham. Ric s . Abbas de Witebi. Rad Can. Beverl." 

21. Carta Willi filii Henrici de Caiton confirm, eccl. de Ril- 

lington. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. Vol. vn. fol. 128. 

22. Carta Willi fil. Robti. Chambard confirm, unam bovatam 

terras in Cuton. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. Vol. vn. fol. 1 68. 

23. Receipt of Robert Ugtbred to the Prior and Convent for 

15/. 13*. id. A. D. 1301. 29 Ed. I. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. 
Vol. vn. fol. 213. 

24. Carta Stephl. fil. Alani de Coton conced. undecem bovatas 

terras in Flotemanbi cum capitali messuagio. Anno 1251. 
35 Hen. III. ibid. fol. 230. 

r 

25. Carta Ingami de Mounceaus Dom. de Berneston, de Molen- 

dino unoaquatico, &c. in Hertburn. A. D. 1297. 15 Ed. I. 
ibid. fol. 246. (drawing of seal annexed to the MS. copy). 

26. Carta Willi fil. Alani de Scuris conced. duas bovatas terras 

apud Acclum. ibid. fol. 247. 

27. Indentura inter Priorem et Conventum de Bridlington, et 

Willm fil. Moye, et Aliciam ux. de 5 quart, frumenti. 
A. D. 1315. 8 Ed. II. fol. 266. 

28. Plac. 30 Ed. I. de advocatione medietatis Eccl. de Tweng. 

ibid. fol. 264. 

29. Carta Willi de Friboys de Heslertona de undecem solidis 

exeunt, de duis bovatis terras in Flemyngbortona. ibid, 
fol. 274. 

30. Carta Thomas, fil. Robti. de Sywardeby conced. unam rodam 

et 4 perticatas terras in territorio de Sywardeby et de 
Marton. ibid. fol. 275. 



74 APPENDIX. 

31. Carta Hugonis Prioris de Bredlingtona de EcclT de Wicharo. 

ibid. fol. 294. 

32. CartaWillT fil. Symonis de Rocheford confirm, carucatam terra 

in Newtona. ibid. fol. 308. 

33. Carta Alexandri de Monteforti confirm, unam carucatam term 

in Acclum. ibid. fol. 309. 

34. Carta Ricardi de Berneville confirm, terram et tenementum 

cum capella &c. de Flotmanby. ibid. fol. 309. 

35. CartaWillT fil. Adelardi de Bessingbi quiet-clam.* de Brictiva 

ux. Willi fil. x\rlmari de Bessingbi. ibid. fol. 310. 
3G. Carta Aviciae ux. Gaufridi de Thorni confirm, unam carucatam 
terrse in Ruddestain. ibid. fol. 311. 

37. Carta Petri fil. StephI Pigot de 4 acris terras in campis de 

Otringham. ibid. fol. 311. 

38. Carta Willi fil. Malgeri de Ergham confirm, unam bovatam 

terra? cum tofto in territorio de Ricbton. ibid. fol. 317. 

39. Carta Regis StephI conf. Eccl. de Hornecastr. ibid. fol. 329. 

40. Carta Robtl fil. Willi Constabularii de Flameburg. de una 

bovata terras et uno tofto in NafFerton. ibid. fol. 330. 

41. Carta Elizabethan, vidua? Ad» de Bekwith, filiae et heredis 

Thomae de Malbys conced. totum jus &c. de feodo suo 
in Flixton et Fordon A. D. 1409. 11 Hen. IV. ibid, 
fol. 330. 

42. Carta Gaufridi fil. Petri de Fribois conf. omnes terras, quas 

habent de feodo suo in Burtona-Flandrensi. 

43. Finis inter Priorem de Bridlington, et Brianum de Insula et 

Robtum de Perci de communi pastura in Tymbell et 
Blubberhus. 21 Hen. III. R. Dods. Bodl. MSS. Vol. vm. 
fol. 119. 

44. Carta Radi Malileporarii de Alverton confirm : eccl. S. 

Maria? de Bredlington et Canonicis ibidem Deo servien- 
tabus in liberam et perpetuam elcemosinam totam terram 
suam de Sumerscales, &c. ibid. fol. 213. 
15. Carta Henrici I. conced. Tol. et Team, &c. ibid. fol. 140. 
"H. Rex Angliae Archiepo Eborum et Justiciariis et Vicecom- 

* Quit-claim, dischai ■ 



APPENDIX. 75 

tibus, et Baronibus, omnibus ministeriis et fidelibus suis de 
Eborascivia et totius Angliae salutem. Praacipio et concedo, quod 
Ecclesia de Brelintona et Canonici Regulares ibidem Deo ser- 
vientes habeant. Tol, et Team, et Socam, et Sacam, et Infangtkefe, 
et quietaclamationem Teolononiorum et omnium consueludinum, 
de dominicis rebus suis per totam terram meam, et alias libertates 
omnes et consuetudines, quas alias Ecclesiae Religiose in Ebo- 
rasciva melius habent. Teste, Turstino Episcopo Eborum apud 
Eboi-um, &c." 

46. Carta Walteri de Gaunt Fundatoris confirm : unam carucatam 

terrae datam in dedicatione Capellae de Bessingbi per Willm 

constabularium suum. ibid. fol. 140. 
"Turstino venerabili Ebor. Archepo. et omnibus fidelibus 
Eboraceucsivae. W. de Gaunt salm. Sciatis quod concedo et 
confirmo per hoc breve meum unam carucat. tre in Besyngby, 
illam quam Saxo tenuit, quam Willm constabularius meus dedit 
eccl. Scae Mar. de Brid. in dedicatione Capellae de Besyngby 
liberam,solutam ab omnibus consuetudinibus et Gcldis et servitiis 
praeter ' Tenmantale.' Hiis testibus Herbto Canonico Sci Petri. 
Ulpho p'stro. Rogo p'stro, Jordano Parnel. Hugo fre ejus. W. 
de Mundevill, nepote eius : Odon fil. Johanis, Willi fil Guther, 
Rad° de Grendal. Rado de Novavilla, Malgero de Ergliom : 
et Gilbto. fre. eius. Waltero et Rado fil. Radi de Grendal. Reyn- 
frido et Azor. Malgo Thorp." 

47. Carta ejusdem confirm : eccl : de Willardeby ex dono Adelardi 

de Willardeby hominis sui. ibid. fol. 141. 

48. Confirmatio primi Advocati* nostri de quibusdam tenuris, 

ita incipiens, " Ego Walterus de Gaunt," ike. ibid. fol. 
141. 

49. Carta Jordani Paynel de una carucata terrae de feodo de 

Maynil. ibid. fol. 142. 

50. Carta Gilberti de Gaunt confirm, tres carucatas terrae in 

Spetona. ibid. fol. 142. 

; Patron and founder. 



76 APPENDIX. 

51. Carta Robti. de Gaunt conced. Herbagiumin Swaledale. ibid. 

fol. 144. 

52. Carta Alicia? Comitissae, filiae Gilberti de Gaunt, Comitis 

Lincolniae confirm, totam pasturam et herbagium de Swal- 
dale. ibid. fol. 145. 

53. Testificatio Robti de Gaunt, qudd frater ejus Gilbertus de 

Gant concessit Barton et tres carucatas in Spetona. ibid, 
fol. 146. 

54. Carta Gilbti fil. Robti de Gant confirm : donationem patris 

sui de 25. acris terrae in Svvaldale. ibid. fol. 147. 

55. Carta Gilbti fil. et bere s Gibti de Gant confirm : donationem 

patris sui de terris in Burtona-Flandrensi. ibid. fol. 147. 
Bodl. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth. Vol. cvm. fol. 161. 

56. Carta Prioris et Conventus de Bridlington de foresta de 

Svvaldale. ibid. fol. 148. et Vol. cox. fol. 137. Ex Char- 

tulario fol. 191. 
" Omnibus &c. ffrat. Galfridus Prior de Bridlingtona et ejus- 
dem loci Conventus, in Domino salutem sempiternam. Cum 
nobilis vir Dominus Gilbertus de Gaunt, die Sancti Botulphi 
Abbatis, Anno Domini M° cc° septuagessimo octavo apud Hun- 
demanby concessit ac confirmavit, ad salutem animae suae, pro se 
et haeredibus suis, nobis et successoribus nostris, omnes posses- 
siones, tenuras, et bona sine aliquo excepto, quod de feodo suo 
tenemus in comitatu Eborum, Richmund: et Lincolniae ; volumus 
tamen, ut debemus, ejus exbereditationem in fforesta et Bosco 
suo de Svvaldale cavere totaliter in hoc facto. Ita qudd praedictus 
nobilis Dominus G. de Gaunt, et heredes sui babeant et teneant 
Boscum suum in Svvaldale, et liberum Parcam suum, una cum 
Attach de viridi, et venatione et cum omnibus JVaynis et excapiis 
forinsecoriim, et emendatione capiendo adeo libere et integre in 
perpetuum, sicut idem Dominus G. et successores sui ea ante, 
praedictum diem Sancti Botulphi Abbatis habere solebant et 
tenere. In cujus rei testimonio Sigellum Capituli nostri praesenti 
Scripto fecimus apponi. Hiis testibus, &c." 

57. Carta Edvardi fil. Petri de Rossa de Eccl. de Attingvvyke, 

ibid. fol. 150. 



APPENDIX. 77 

58. Conventio inter Galfridum Priorem de Bridlington, et Arnal- 

dum fil. et baered. Dom. Walteri de Burton-Flandr. de 
Cantaria. A.D. 1291. 19 Ed. I. ibid. fol. 151.* 

59. Carta Gilbti de Gant confirm: donat. Arnaldi de Burton. 

ibid. fol. 152. 

60. De Cantaria in Capella de Briniston. A. D. 1231. 19 Hen. 

III. ibid. fol. 152. 

61. Conventio inter Priorem et Conventum de Bridlington, et 

inbabitatores villse de Briniston de Cantaria in Capella de 
Briniston. A.D. 1243. 28 Hen. III. ibid. fol. 152. 

62. Carta Willi de Stuttevillae conced. villam de Bluberbus et 

Tymbell in foresta de Knaresburgh: ita incipiens " Williel- 
mus de Stuttevilla omnibus, &c. Sciatis me.dedisse, &c. 
Roberto forestario et baeredibus suis Blubberbousum, &c." 
ibid. fol. 153. 

63. Carta Willi de Percy fil. Emmae de Gaunt confirm : dona- 

tionem matris suae de una. car. terrae in Newton, ibid, 
fol. 154. 

64. Carta Willi fil. Simonis de Rocheford idem confirm, ibid. 

fol. 154. 

65. Conventio inter Robertum Priorem de Bridlington et inbabi- 

tatores villas de Bempton de Capella de Bempton in 
Parochia de Bridlington. A.D. 1441. 19 Hen. VI. 

" Haac est conventio facta in domo Capitularii de Bridlinton 
decimo octavo die Julii 1441 Inter Robertum Priorem de Brid- 
lington ordinis Sancti Augustini Eborum Diocess. ex una parte, 
et Inbabitatores villae sive hamlettae de Bempton intra parochiam 
de Bridlington ex altera parte. Quod dicti Inbabitatores de 
Bempton, de Licentia dicti Prioris, quandam Capellam in dicta 
villa antiquitus constructam et fabricatam in honore Sancti Mi- 
cbaelis Archangeli, et Cimeterium ad eandam Capellam pertinens 

* Arnald de Burton confirms his father's donation of 8| carucates of land 
at Burton Fleming, the Prior and Convent being to maintain out of it a 
Chaplain to pray for their souls at the altar of St. John the Apostle in the 
Chapel of St. Lawrence, at Burton. 



7S APPENDIX. 

et contiguum, suis sumptibus et expensis valeant consecrari, et 
post ipsorum Capellae et Cimeterii dedicationem liceat praedictis 
Inhabitatoribus per unum Capellanum per ipsos conducendum, et 
in villa prsedicta ad ipsorum expensas cubantem, et coenantem, 
cum sic fuerit dedicata, sacramenta recepere, et communem sepul- 
turam habere Cimeterio Capellae praedictae, et Capellanus in dicta 
Capella ministrans ex dono Prioris recipiet in Purificatione mu- 
lierum unum denarium, et in Sepultura mortuorum in singulis 
Missis suis unum denarium, vulgantur vocatum, ' Heved T\Iassc 
Peny.' " 

Q6. Conventio inter Priorem de Bridlington, et Ricardum, et 
Hugonem Phitum, milites, in Capellae S. Jacobi in Paro- 
chial de Magna Couton. A. D. 1240. 25 Hen. III. ibid, 
fol. 155. 

67. Carta Rogeri de Movvbrai de manerio de West Askam. 

Vol. ci,ix. fol. 143. 

68. Abstract of Carta Ric. II. de Kernellatione Prioratus.' 

" R. 2. an°. regni sui n"., ob reverentiam Johannis de Thweng, 
nuper Prioris de Bridlintona in Comitatu Eboracensi, nuper 
defuncti, licentiam dedit nunc Priori et Conventui loci praedicti, 
qudd ipsi Prioratum ilium muribus et domibus, de petra et calce* 
firmandis, includere, ac muros et domos praedictos batellare et 
kernellare.f et eos sic batellatos et kernellatos tenere possint." 
R. Dodsrvorth, Bodl. MSS. Vol. 159. fol. 170. 

69. Abstract of Carta Joban: de Feria.' 

" Johannes Rex a^ regni sui 2 d0 . concessit eccl. scae Mariae de 
Bridlington unam feriam apud Bridlinton per duos dies dura- 
turam, sclt. in vigilia Assumptions bae. Mariae et in die ipus 
festi, et mercatum ibm singulis ebdomadis in die Sabbati.J 
Teste R. Epo Scae Andreaa, Robto de Tvveng, Robto de 
Veteri ponte." 

R. Dodsrvorth, Bodl. MSS. Vol. 159. fol. 170. 

* Free-stone, and chalk-stone. 

+ To embattle, and to fortify, as a castle. 

t Saturday, the day of the Jewish Sabbath. 



APPENDIX. 79 

70. Turstini ArchI: sup: convenclo: inter Canon: Brellin, et 
Canon : de Beull : 

(Copied from the original, in the Bodleian Library.) 

"Omnibus successoribus suis in Eboracensi Eccl: Canonice 
substraciendis, et omnibus Parochianis suis, tarn Clericis, quam 
Laicis. T. ejusdem Eccl: DT: gra: administrator, licet indignus, 
salutem, et orationum suffragia. Multimoda Scripturarum inter- 
pretatione informamur, quod, quicquid honoris et gratiae sanctissimi 
Dei a nobis vel pro nobis fuerit exhibitum, totum sit ei odor suavi- 
tatis et sacrificium. Si autem id de Sanctis ejus astruit:", multo 
magis de piissima ejus genetrice sentiendum est, quae, singularis 
privilegio puritatis et innocentis vitae, ipsum, quern ccelum, terra, et 
mare non capiunt, intra angustias virginalis uteri meruit inclu- 
dere. Ilia est ilia humani generis meditatrix, quae pro nostris 
cotidianis excessibus cotidianis precibus filium suum fideliter in- 
terpellat. Unde nos ejus servi beneficii illius conventione, quae in- 
ter Beverlacensis Eccl :, et Scae, Mariae Brellintoniencis, Canonicos 
facta est, siciffr in Carta utrinque concessa, et Sigillo ScT Johls 
signata continetur, concedimus et concedendo firmamus. Quas 
recapitulatas presentibus intexere commodum duximus. Canonici 
Scae Mariae. Brellintoniensis Canonicos Be verlacenses familiaris ex 
bono caritatis, quae deils est, in consortium beneficiorum suorum, 
orationum, et elemosinarum suscipiunt, ita ut, quando Beverla- 
censis obierit, Brellintonienses ei, sicut uni suorum, obsequii debi- 
tum exbibeant. Beverlacenses ergo, ne tacite pietatis et humani- 
tatis inveniantur immunes, aliquid beneficium in perpetuum eis 
tenendum concesserunt. Ita elemosinam illam, videlicet 11 travas,* 
aut-f duos denarios de singulis carrucis in Parocbia de Brellintona, 
et de Hundemanebi pro remedio animarum suarum, Eccle:de 
Brellintona semper habendam donaverunt, ita quod Canonici de 
Brellintona. Beverlacensibus i marc: argenti reddent per an- 
num ad Nativitatem Sci Johls Baptistae." 

* Thrave of corn, 12 sheaves. 

t The manuscript is here not sufficiently legible to decide between ' auf 
and ' et' ; but Burton, Mon: Ebor: has it thus, " two traves, or two pennies.'' 



80 APPENDIX. 

71. Cart. Harl. Mus. Brit. 44. B. 22. A.D. 1327. 
( Copied from the original Charter, to which the Seals are annexed.) 
" Omnibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Monasterium 
de Bridelington et ejusdem loci Conventus salutem in Domino 
sempiternam. Noveritis, nos, nnanimo assensu Capitularii nostri, 
concessisse et reddidisse Priori et Conventui de Bolington* unum 
molendinium aquaticum cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in Hem- 
myngby, quod habuimus ex concessione et dimissione praedictorum 
Prioris et Conventus, habendum et tenendum eisdem Priori et 
Conventui et eorum successoribus, bene, quiete, et in pace in per- 
petuum, cum omnibus dicto molendino, pertinentibus adeo integre 
sicut nobis ilia dimiserunt. Ita quod nee nos dicti Prior et Con- 
ventus de Bridelington, nee successores. . . .nee aliquis nomine 
nostro in prasdicto molendino cum suis pertinentibus quibuscun- 
que aliquid juris seu clamei\ poterimus aut exigere seu aliquo 
modo vend .... inperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium present! 
Scripto Sigillum nostrum Commune apposuimus. Hiis testibus 
domino Petro Brecon milite, Henrico de Baumburgh, Gilberto le 
Stoeroures de eadem, Jobe de Speeton, Normanno de Kernecteby, 
et aliis. Datum apud Bridelington die Martis in festo Sancti 
Dunstani, anno Domini millesimo tricentesimo vicessimo sep- 
timo." 

72. Letter from Sir Thomas Boijnton to Lord Burleigh about the 

repairs of Bridlington Harbour. 

[Mus. Brit. Lansdoun MSS. No. 31. 67.] 

" My devvtye most hewmblye remembred, I psive that yo r L. 
thyncketh my request for Byrlynton to be more then ys fytt for 
hyr Maty to parte w th . Y l may therefore pleas you to have consy- 
theratyon of the Graunte w ch hyr Hyghness mayd to the Leacees 
of that Manor, w ch vvas betteryd with the gyfte of C. lb in money, C 
Okes,and cartan tunnes of Iron, and to wegh how unable the said 
Leacees hathe bene, not \v th standyng the sayme, to repare and up- 
holld that rewenyd Harbar. The Grant for the tyme was as good 

* " Prioratus de Bolington Lincoln : in quo Sanctimoniales Ordi.nis 
de Semprinn-liam." — II. Dodsworth's MSS. 
f Claim. 



APPENDIX. 81 

as anye Fee Farme, the money, Okes, and Iron spent, and the Pere 
now in worse cayse then whan they resavyd y l . Wherbye I trust 
y*. may appere unto yo r . L. that the thyng wch thay resavyd was 
not able to pforme the chardge, wch thay bounde themsellves 
unto. And becayse thys ys the most appte and chefyst tyme of 
the yere to labor of the see workes, y l may therefore pleas yo r 
L. and M r . Ayllderney to bestow one owar to have in consythe- 
reatyon of the same, and to give me leve then to attende yo r 
plezures, and what as your honors shall thyngke my request to 
muche, I shall hewmble myselfe to yelld unto, not dowghtyng 
but you wyll have eonsytheratyon of the chardge, and to whom 
in right yt belongethe, and yet shall I be content to beare somm 
pte of the burthen, in respect that I may therebye plezure my 
contremen, and reteyne my place of abytatyon, where I have 
bestowyed sume cost to plante mysellfe, w ch otherwyse I shalbe 
foresyd to refewse, and so hewmblye comyttyng the cause to 
y or L. good eonsytheratyon take my leave. Westmynstar the 
xiiii Apriell 1581 

Y or L. hewmblye at comandement 

Tho. Boynton 
To the Ryght Honorable his yerye 
good Lord the L. Burghley. L. Hygh 
Tresurer of England and one of hyr 
Hygh Honorable pvye C." 

73. Placita de quo warranto. Com: Ebor : Edw. I. 

"Prior de Bridlington' sum' fuit ad respondendum domino 
Regi de placito quo warranto habere liberam warrennam in 
omnibus dominicis terris suis in Bridlington', Bessingby, Speton', 
Freysthorp', Parva Lek, Skirlington, Burton' Fleming, West- 
hassam, Flotmanby, Wyllarby, Halytreholm, Croom, et Aclum, et 
habere mercatum, et feriam,sok et sak, tol et them et infangenth* in 
Bridlington', et esse quietus de theolonio de dominicis rebus suis 

* Sole, sak, tol, them, and infangenth, were privileges of civil jurisdiction, 
granted by the King to the Lord of the Manor over the Vassals within the 
soke, or liberty of the same. — See Wisharl's Law Dictionary. Ed. 1829. 



82 APPENDIX. 

per to turn regnum Angliae, et de pannagio porcorum suorum in 
foresta domini Regis de Salleya, quae ad coronam et dignitatem 
domini Regis pertinent, sine lie' et voluntate domini Regis, et 
progenitorum suorum Regum Angliae &c. Et Prior per Attorn' 
suum venit. Et dicit, quod ipse clamat liberam warennam in villis 
prasdictis per cartam domini Regis Henrici, datam anno regni sui 
decimo octavo, quam perfert, et quse testatur, quod idem Dominus 
Rex concessit Priori et Conventui de Bridlington', quod ipsi et 
successores sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warennam in omnibus 
dominicis terris suis apud maneria sua de Bridlington', Bessingby, 
Speton', Fraystborp', Parva Lek, Skirlington, Burton' Fleming, 
West Askham, Flotemanby, Willardeby, Halytreholm, Croom, et 
Aclum, &c. Clamat eciam feriam singulis annis in Bridlington' 
per duos dies dur', videlicet, in vigilia, et in die Assumpcionis 
Beatae Mariae, &c. Et unum mercatum ibidem Singulis Sept a is 
per diem Sabbati per Cartam domini Regis Johannis, avi domini 
Regis Henrici, datam anno regni sui secundo, quam perfert, et quae 
testatur, qudd idem dominus Rex concessit Deo, et Ecclesiae suae 
Sanctae Mariae de Bridlington', et Canonicis ibidem Deo servien- 
tibus singulis Annis unam feriam apud Bridlington' per duos dies 
dur', scilicet, in vigilia Assumpcionis Beatae Mariae, et in die ipsius 
festi, et unum mercatum Singulis sept a is ibidem una die scilicet 
die Sabbati ita qudd ilia feria et illud mercatum non sintad nocu- 
mentum vicinorum mercatorum et vicinarum feriarum &c. Clamat 
eciam sok et sak tol et tem et infangenth et esse quietus de 
theolonio &c. per Cartam domini Henrici Regis, filii Conquestoris, 
quam perfert, et quae testatur, quod idem Dominus Henricus Rex 
praecepit, et concessit qudd Ecclesia de Bridlington' et Canonici 
regulares ibidem Deo servientes habeant tol et them sokam et 
sakam et infang' et quietaclamacionem tbeolon' et omnium consue- 
tudinum de dominicis rebus suis per totam terram Angliae &c." 

"Clamat eciam pannagium porcorum &c. ab antiquo. Et dicit 
quod ipse, et omnes praedecessores sui a tempore quo non extat 
memoria semper usi sunt hujusmodi libertate &c. Et de hoc 
pon' se super priam &c. Et Rogerus de Hegh a m pet' p dn. R. 
qudd inquiratur qualiter &c. Idcirco inquir r ." — Rot. 21 . 



APPENDIX. 83 

74. Prynne's Records. Vol. in. p. 864. claus. 28. Edw. I. 

m. 17. intus. pro Ingelramo de Colonia Canonico domus 

de Jeddeworth. 
" Rex, dilectis sibi in Christo, Priori et Conventui de Brid- 
lington, salutem. Mittimus ad vos fratrem Ingelramum de Colonia, 
Canonicum Domus de Jeddeworth in Scotia, ordinis vestri 
prassentium portitorem, in qua quidem Domo idem Ingelramus 
ad famulandum ibidem altissimo, ut deceret, his diebus, facere 
moram nequit, turn propter incursus hostium, turn quia Domus 
ilia per frequentes guerras Scotia habitas adeo lapsa est facul- 
tatibus etdestructa, qu6d,ad sustentationem Canonicorumejusdem, 
ipsius non suppetunt facultates, devotionem vestram rogantes 
attente, quatenus dilectum Ingelramum in Domum vestram, ad 
deserviendum ibidem Deo sub habitu vestro inter vos, juxta pro- 
fessionis suae votum, Dei intuitu nostrisque precibus admittatis, et 
fraterna charitate in Domino pertractetis, saltern quousque, dicta 
Domus de Jeddeworth relevetur, et in melius reformetur. Teste 
Rege apud Ebor. ] 6 die Novembris."* 

75. Ibid. p. 1192. Pat. 35. Edw. I. m. 6. intus. Pro Priore de 

Bridlington. Writ for appropriating the Church of Gousle 
to the Prior and Convent of Bridlington. Teste Rege 
apud Karliolum 1 6 die Junii. 

76. Rylei Plac. Parliam. p. 131. 21 Edw. I. f 

77. Ibid. p. 627 in Appendix. + 

* The Monastery of Jeddeworth, in Scotland, being so wasted and impo- 
verished by the Scottish wars, and incursion of enemies, that it was unable 
to maintain the Canons thereof, nor they able to reside there in safety to 
serve God ; the King, thereupon, out of his piety, and ecclesiastical pre- 
rogative, sent some of them to other religious houses of the same order in 
England, to be there received and maintained till that house was repaired 
and restored to a better condition, as this writ for Ingelram de Colonia to 
the Prior and Convent of Bridlington assures us. 

f The Prior of Bridlington is sued by the Crown, for the payment of a 
debt of 300/. lent to his predecessor by a Jew, whose effects had been seized by the 
King under an Act banishing the Jews from England for treasonable practices. 

X Copy of an instrument in Norman French, in which the Governor of 
Knaresborough Castle lays claim to a certain sum payable to him out of the 
t- state held by the Prior of Bridlington as Lord of the Manor of Bloberhouse. 

G 2 



S4 APPENDIX. 



E. 



DAKE-i; E IV. 



■■ About the time of King Egbert, in the year A.D. S00, the 
Danes first disturbed the English coasts, afterwards making havoc 
of every thing, and plundering over England, they destroyed cities, 
burnt churches, wasted the lands, and, with a most barbarous 
cruelty, thove all before them, ransacking and overturning every 
thing. They murdered the kings oi' the Mercians and East 
Angles, ami then took possession of their kingdoms, with a great 
pan of that of Northumberland. To put a stop to these outrages a 
heavy tax was imposed upon the miserable inhabitants, called 
' Dangelt,' the nature whereof this passage, taken out of our old 
laws, doth fully discover. ' The pirates gave first occasion to the 
paving ' Danigeld.' Eor they made such havoc oi' this nation, 
that they seemed to aim at nothing but its utter ruin. And to 
suppress their insolence it was enacted that Danigeld should 
yearly be paid, (which was twelve pence for every hide of land in 
the whole nation,) to maintain so many forces as might withstand 
the incursions oi' the Pirates.' All churches were exempt from 
this Danigeld, nor did any land in the immediate possession of 
the church contribute any thing, because they put more confidence 
in the prayers oi' the church than in the defence of arms." — 

C.VMPEN. 



AIM-KNDIX. 



85 



Catalogue of Priors of Bridlington. Burton, Man. Ebor. and 
Torr MSS., Archdeaconry of East Riding. 



a. n. 

Wikcman occurs - 1121' 

Adebold - - 1141 

Bernard - 1145 

Robert 'the Scribe' 1160 

Gregory - - 1181 

Hugh - - 1189 

llclyas - - 1200 

Hubert - - 1218 

Thomas - - 1231 

J oli u - - - 1252 

*Galfrid de Nafferton 1262 

fGerard de Burton - 1 297 

| per cess. | 

Peter deWyrethorpe 1815 

[per cess.~\ 

Rob'.dcScardeburgh 1821 

[per mart. ] 

15th Feb. Peter de Appleby 1842 

| per cess, | 

29th Jan. Peter de Cotes - 1 356 

[per 7iiort.] 

3d Jan. John de Twenge - 1361 

[per mort.~\ 

[A.D. 1386. q. de miraculis.] 



William de Driffield 1363 

[ per marl. J 

18th Jala. John de Bridlington 1366 

20th Nov. William de Newbold 1379 

John de Gisburnc - 1420 

[per mort.\ 

22d April. Robert Warde - - 1429 

[per resig.] 

list March. Robert Willy - 1444 

[per privat.~\ 

2d March. Peter Ellarde - - 1462 

| per cess. \ 

\st Sept. Robert de Bristwyk - 1 172 

[per resig. \ 

ISthNov. John Curzon - - 1488 

[per resig. \ 

■l/l, April. Robert Danby - - 1498 

[per mart.] 

9th Nov. John English - - 1506 

[per Tnort."] 

5th July. John Hompton - 1510 

[per mort.~] 

15th June. William Brownesflete 1521 

[per resig. ] 

VlthJune. William Wode -1531 



List of Perpetual Curates since the Dissolution of the Monastery, 
A.D. 1538, as far as they can be made out from the Parish 
Register. 





A. ». 






A. D. 


Robert King occurs 


- 1564. 


Thomas Walker 


. 


- 1704 


Peter Thompson - 




John Elleray 


- 


- 1714 


George Winteringham - 


- 


Cornelius Rickaby 


- 


- 1748 


John Lucks ejected 


- 1662 


Francis Lundy 


- 


- 1786 


Henry Walker 


- 


George Smith 


- 


- 1809 



• A. D. 1295. Bridelington Prior de, summoned to Parliament at West- 
minster Abbey, 23 Edw. I. 

fA. I). 1299. Bridelington Prior de, summoned to Parliament at London 
or Westminster, on the first Sunday in Lent, 8th March, 27 Edw. 1. 

A. D. 1300. Bridelington Prior de, returned from the County of York as 
holding in lands, either in Capite or otherwise, to the amount of 40/. yearly 
value and upwards, and as such summoned under the general writ to per- 
form military service against the Scots: Muster at Carlisle on the Nativity 
of St. John the Baptist. 24th June, 28th Edw. I. — See the Summonses at length 
in Pa/grave's Parliamentary Writs, pp. 28, 79, 333. 



86 APPENDIX. 



EXTRACTS FROM BISHOP BALE S LIVES OF ENGLISH WRITERS DOWN 

TO A.D. 1577, WITH SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES AND 

ILLUSTRATIONS. 

1. Robertus, cognomento Scriba, Canonicorum Regularium 
Bridlintonensis Csenobii quartus Praeses, a nonnullis Scriptoribus 
ob insignem eruditionem et in scribendo diligentiam laudatur. 
Hie ita juventutem suam, inquit Lelandus, sacrarum literarum 
lectione exercuit, ut universum fere orbem Latinorum Tlieologo- 
rum viderit, evolverit intellexerit. Talis namque fuit iste Ro- 
bertus, ut a scribendo ac digerendis libris, nisi fallar, sortitus est 
hoc nomen. Tantum certe doctrina valuit, ut cum solida? scrip- 
turae ac veterum patrum argumento, turn etiam suae vitae qua- 
dam admiratione multos ad se observandum attraxerit, ut non sit. 
tanta virtus sine sua gloria. Sed jam ad librorum elenchum 
oculos et ora vertamus. Reliquit ingenii sui monumenta insignia 
ex variis doctoribus Augustino, Hieronymo, Fulgentio, Isodoro, 
Beda, Haymone, Juone, Anselmo, Monogaldo, Serlone, et aliis 
magno labore collecta, scilicet, 

In Genesin commentaries In Cantica Bibliorum 

In Exodum In Orationem Dominican? 

In Leviticum Super Matthseum 

In Numeros Super Joannem 

In Deuteronomium Super Epistolas Pauli* 

Super Psalterium De operibus 6 Dierum 

Breviarium in Psalmos Decalogos Plures 

In Cantica Canticorum De corpore et sanguine ChristI 

In 12 Prophetas De ecclesia Catholica 

Super Apocalypsin Sermones quoque. 

In symbolum Athanasii 



* Among the MSS. in the University Library at Cambridge, marked 
446 in the Catalogue, there is a copy of this work beautifully written, and 
the initial letter of each Epistle, finely illuminated. There are two short 
treatises, written in a different hand ; the first a work by the same author. 



APPENDIX. 87 

Claruit Robertus ab initio redempti orbis 1180, sub Henrico 
secundo Anglorum Rege, sepultusque tandem fuit in Claustro 
sui Monasterii ante fores Capituli cum hac inscriptione, ' Robertus 
cognomenlo Scriba,' &c. 

2. Gregorius de Bridlintona, ejus caenobii in Eboracensi pro- 
vincia Canonicus Regularis, suis a me coloribus hfc depingendus 
esset, si sui ordinis historian justam ministrassent materiem. Sed 
in hac parte hactenus obstitit vel notariorum defectus, vel chro- 
nographorum apud eos incuria, qui descriptis ineptiis anilibus, 
seria ingrate praeterierunt. Omissis ergo ad praesens, quae ipse 
tota vita gesserit, sive in bonarum literarum exercitiis, sive in 
aliis vocationis suae functionibus, scripta ejus ex multis pauca, 
quae apud alios authores invenimus, ut operis nostri argumentum 
exposcit, libenter apponemus. Composuit ille, ut inter alios 
harum rerum consarcinatores Bostonus Buriensis, in magno suo 
scriptorum catalogo, numerat 

Super Cantica Canticorum. 
De Arte Musicis. 
Sermones quoque. 

Commentarios etiam in Scripturas Bibliorum plures edidisse pu- 
tatur, post lecturas suas publicas, quas tamen nondum vidi. 
Collegii sui Prascentorem, olim fuisse ilium, ex scriptis apparet. 
Sed quo tempore claruerit certe non invenio.* 

called, ' De Operibus 6 Dierum ;' the other, ' De Paenitentia,' which seem 
to have been bound up with the main work at a subsequent period. 

The following memorandum, dated Feb. 14, 1635, is written in the book: 
" This booke, entituled, ' Compilationes Roberti Prioris de Berlintona in 
Epistolas Pauli Apostoli,' being bequeathed to the Publike Library of this 
University of Cambridge by the last will and testament of Mr. Thomas 
Pierson, Rector of Brampton Brian in the County and Diocess. of Hereford, 
sometime Master of Arts in Emmanuel Colledge, was brought and delivered 
by Mr. Christopher Hardy, one of the Executors of the said Mr. Pierson. 
This Mr. Pierson was, in his younger days, a frequent coadjutor to that great 
Theologue Mr. Perkins." 

* N.B. His Life is placed by Bale among the writers who flourished in the 
century between A.D. 1200, and A. D. 1300. 



88 APPENDIX. 

3. William of Newburgh. — Guillelmus Petyte vel Parvus, 
Bridlingtonae in terra Eboracensi natus, Novoburgensis Monasterii 
prope sylvam cuculinam Canonicus Regularis ac Doctor Theo- 
logus fuit. Is humanis juxta ac divinis studiis tantopere adhse- 
rebat, ut nullam fere horam recte collocatam putaret, nisi in doc- 
torum librorum lectione. Is quidem a Lelando reprehensus fuit, 
qudd Britannicarum ignarus antiquitatum cum Galfrido Monu- 
metensi tarn acerbe decertavit in procemio suorum Chronicorum. 
Erat tamen Guillelmus, inquit Lelandus, vir, sua aetate, rerum 
temporibus recentioribus gestarum non ignarus, sed multo in scrip- 
turarum interpretatione, ut ex ejus facile apparet libris, felicior. 
Scripsit enim ab A.D. mlxvi ad A.D. mcxcvii, stilo satis nitido, 
bistoriam de gestis Anglorum libros quinque, de Anglorum 
Regibus, in Cantica Canticorum commentarios, alios Sermones 
eruditos. Rogero Abbati Bellelandensi dicavit opus suum in 
Cantica Canticorum. Claruit Anno mcc rursusque ad finem 
Centuriae decimae tertiae. In introductione pro formanda Historia. 
" Guillelmus Novoburgensis, alias Petitus, Canonicus Regularis, 
scripsit Historian! de gestis Anglorum in quinque libris a Guil- 
lelmo Notho usque ad A.D. mcxcviii." Hue usque vita Guil- 
lelmiad an: aetatis ejus lxii perducta, num longius producta,quia 
nusquam apparuit, diligentiori disquirendum relinquo. 

Historia Anglicana per Gulielmum Neubrigensem ed. John 
Picard, a French Canon, 1632. Paris, Svo. 

William of Nevvburgh's Chronicle was also edited by Hearne 
the Antiquary. Oxford. 

4. Peter of Langtoft is enumerated under the title of ' Pers 
of Bridlington,' among several of the old Chroniclers or Monkish 
Historians, in the following extract from an ancient metrical 
romance, entitled ' Havelok the Dane.' The author alludes to 
the tale of the fisherman, said to be the founder of Grimsby, in 
Lincolnshire. 

" But I haf grete ferly that I fynd no man 

That has written in story how Havelok this land wan, 
Noither Gildas, no Bede, no Henry of Huntynton, 
No William of Malmesbiri, ne Pers of Brydlynton, 
Writes not in their Bokes of no King Athelwold," &c. 



APPENDIX. 89 

The English translation of Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, by 
Robert Brunne, was edited by Hearne, in 2 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 
1725. 

5. Joannes Bridlyngton, in Eboracensi patria natus, et Canoni- 
corum Regularium in ipso Bridlyngtonensi Ccenobio Praeses, 
exercitationem literarum in primis familiarem, juxta ac charam 
habuit. Caelesti Theologian cultor assiduus adhaesit, ita ut ni- 
hilominus tamen et stndia minus severa opportune aggrederetnr. 
Inter quae condendorum versuum artem, illi sseculo plausibilem 
et receptam habens, diversi generis carmina ac rythmos, recreandi 
animi sui gratia, fabricare solebat. Nam inter quotidianos hujus 
vitae labores, incommoda saepenumero et multa et magna pertu- 
lisse narratur. Ferunt etiam de eo, quod ex frequenti et assidua 
divinarum rerum contemplatione mirabiles habuerit visiones. Sed 
haec in medium ad preesens relinquo, cum suspecta semper ha- 
beam talia Monachorum spectra. Scripsit verd, ut doctrinae 
aliquid posteris suis daret, pcemate barbaro : 

Carmina vaticinalia. 
Vaticinales versus. 
Homelias quoque plures. 

An alia extent ejus scripta plane ignoro. Propbetiae materia 
regum mores tangit, populique petulantias, temeritates, luxurias, 
cupiditates, inconstantias, monetam,pestilentiam, famem, ac bella. 
Obiit anno Christi 1379, sexto Idus Octobris, aetatis suae 60, 
Sanctorum Catalogo tandem ascriptus. 

Among the collection of Latin MSS. by Kenelm Digby, de- 
posited in the Bodleian Library, No. 186, is entitled as follows : 
" Vaticinum cujusdam vir Catholici, Canonici de Brydlynton, 
predicens futura sibi diviniter ostensa, ita incipiens." 

" Febribus infestus, requies fuerat mihi lectus, 
Vexatus mente dormivi nocte repente, 
Noscere futura facta fuerat mihi cura, 
Me masticare jussit, librumque vorare, 
Scribere cum pennis docuit me scriba perennis, 
Jucus erat plene scriptus redolensque amaene, 
Jussit de bellis me versificare novellis, 
Qui sedet in stellis, dat cui vult carmina mellis. 



90 APPENDIX. 

Si vere scribam, verum credas fore scribam, 
Scripsero si vanum, caput est quia non mihi sanum. 
Non mihi detrectes, si falsa per omnia mactes, 
Nullus deliro credat pro carmine miro. 
Rex insensatus est bellis undique fractus, 
Nobilis est natus, qui dicitur infatuatus," &c. 

At the end of the prophecy, the following note is added: 
" Explicit prophetia de fortuna et castigatione Regis et Regni 
Angliae, a tempore Edvardi secundi post Conquestum, usque ad 
tempus successors Edvardi tertii inclusive, quam versificavit et 
fecit scribi unus Canonicus de Brydelyngton decumbens in 
magnis febribus ante mortem suam." 

From another copy of this Prophecy, among the same MSS., 
No. 89, it appears to be the production of Joannes Brydlington, 
and is there accompanied with a prose commentary by Joannes 
Ergome. 

"Prophetia de moribus R. Edwardi de Wyndeseure, secundum 
Bridlyngton metric^," preserved in the Cottonian Library, British 
Museum. Vesp. E. vn. 114. 

Rymer : Convent: feeder: &c. Tom. vm. p. 161. contains a 
copy of the King's royal license, granted to John Gysburn, Prior 
of Bridlington, to allow him free and unmolested passage through 
English territories, on his way to the Court of Rome, about the 
canonization of John de Bridlyngton. This instrument is dated 
from the Palace at Westminster. Oct. 4. A.D. 1400. An. 2. Hen. IV. 

6. " Georgius Riplay, jactis in Italia studiorum fundamentis, 
ut Lelandus habet, ex Regulari tandem Canonico Carmelita factus, 
fanum Botulphi* excoluit, emporium f prope Lindi fluminis ripas 
celeberrimum. Sed ut rem omnem ab exordio repetam, Brid- 
lingtonae primum, in Eboracensi patria, Canonicus fuit et ab 
ineunte aetate circa mirabilium effectuum ac mysteriorum plenas 

* A Priory of Carmelite Friars, founded at Boston, in Lincolnshire, and 
dedicated to St. Botolph. 

f In proof of this it may be noticed, as appears by the Compotus of 
Bolton Abbey, that the Canons of Bolton were in the habit of attending the 
annual fair held at Boston, to lay in a supply of clothing and other articles. 
See Whiiaker's Craven. 



APPENDIX. 91 

operationes curiosus explorator. Ut ergo copiosius et uberius 
philosophari sibi liceret, expleretque, quod conceperat animo, 
provincias remotiores, praecipue Italiam ipsam petiit, et ibidem 
per aliquot annos habitavit. Unde multa est illuc Platonicorum 
aliorumque philosophorum gentilium rimatus arcana, mathema- 
ticus, rhetor, ac poeta, per earn setatem, non vulgaris effectus. 
Ejus in mathematicis authores fuere praecipui, Plato, Aristoteles, 
Hermas, iEgyptius, Avicenna, Geber Arabs, Morienus, Hali 
Abenragel, Alphidius, Alphonsus, Alkindus, Albupater, Albu- 
masar, Rosinus, Baconius, et similes. Caaterum qu6d magis in- 
genue studiis vacaret domi, Innocentii octavi, Romani Pontificis, 
redeundo, obtinuit diploma, ut esset semper a caeremoniarum 
onere immunis prorsus ac liber. Quod cum Canonici non ad- 
mitterent, in fano Botulphi Carmelita induit, circa annum Christi 
1488, et Anachorita eodem in loco inter eos ad obitum usque 
vixit. Hie quanta potuit diligentia perscripsit : 

Vitam Botulphi Abbatis. Castellum 12 portarum. 

Vitam Joannis Bridlingtoni. Dictata segri. 

Historiara compassionis Maria. De magia naturali. 

Theoricam quandam. Compendium Alchymiae.* 
Concordantias Guidonis et Raimundi. Artem brevem vel clangorem. 

Secreta philosophorum. De Lapide Philosophico. 

Alcumistarum mysteria. Dialogum suorum. 

Practicam cseremonialem. Carmina et Epistolas. 

Aliaque prodigiosa opuscula edidit, quae pro insigni thesauro a 
multis servantur. In 'Castello 12 portarum' de calcinatione, so- 
lutione, separatione, conjunctione, putrefactione, congelatione, 

* Among the MSS. of the Public Library of the University of Cambridge, 
marked 1179 in the catalogue, there is a copy of this book on parchment, in 
quarto, entitled ' the Compende of Alchimye, by George Ripley, Canon of 
Bridlington.' The Epistle Dedicatory to Edward IV. is wanting in this 
MS. This treatise was printed by Ashmole in his Theatrum Chemicum 
Britannicum, p. 127, and there entitled ' A Compound of Alchimye.' 

Another of Ripley's works ' De Lapide Philosophico' is preserved among 
the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. Vol. i. p. 213. Cod. 367. Art. 24. 
It is a tract in old English poetry, transcribed by the hand of John Stowe, 
which, from the 5 th stanza, appears to be one of the books of George Ripley, 
Canon of Bridlington, concerning the Philosopher's stone. 



92 APPENDIX. 

multiplicatione, projectione, et similibus agit. Compassionis Ma- 
riae Officium Christi Passioni addidit, tanquam esset cum illo pro 
nobis similiter passa. Claruit anno post Servatorem natum 1490 
sub rege Henrico Septimo, fuitque demum Necromanticus Magus 
post mortem adjudicatus. 

The following curious lines are prefixed to a MS. copy of 
' the Castellum 12 portarum,' one of Ripley's works, which 
seems to be the same elsewhere called ' the Compende of 
Alchemy.' 



" THE VISION OF SIR GEORGE RIPLEY CHANON." 

" When busit at my booke I was uppon a certayne night, 
This vision, heare exprest, appeared unto my sight. 
A toade full rudde I saw did drink the Joyce of grapes so faste, 
Fell over-charged with the brothe his bowells all to braste, 
And after that, from poysoned bulke he caste his venyme fell, 
For grief and paine whereof, his members all beganne to swell 
With droppes of poysoned sweate, approching thus bis secrete denne, 
His cave with blastes oftumous were the all bewhited then, 
And from the within space a golden humore did ensewe 
Whose ffaulinge dropes from highe did staine y e soyle with ruddy hewe, 
And when his corpes y e force of vitall breath beganne to lacke 
This dieinge toade became forthwith, like cole for collor blacke. 
Thus drowned in his proper vaynes of poysoned flude, 
For tearme of eightye daies and fouer, he rottinge stoode. 
By tryall then this venome to expel! I did desier, 
For which I did committe his carces to a gentell fier. 
Which donne a wonder to the sighte, but more to be rehearste, 
The toade with collor rare throughe every syde was perste, 
And white apered, when all the sundry hewes were past, 
Which, after beinge tinted rudde, for evermore did laste. 
Then of this venome handled thus a medecyne I did make, 
Which, venome killes, and saveth such, as venime chaunce to take. 
Glory be to Hime, the granter of such secrette waies, 
Dominion, and honore both, with worshipe, and with praise." 

Then follow these lines both in the Oxford and Cam- 
bridge copies ; the author of which appears, from the latter, to 
have been the transcriber : Thomas Knyvet, A. D. 1585. A . 
aetatis 18. 



APPENDIX. 93 

" Here begynnythe the Compende of Alchymye, 
Made by a Chanon of Brydlyngton, 
After his learnynge in Italye, 
At Exnynge ffor a tyme, when he dyd wonne. 
In weyche he declared openlye, 
The secrets bothe of Moone and Sonne, 
How they, ther kynd to multiplye, 
In one bodye together must wonne. 
Weyche Chanon, Syr George Riplay Knyght, 
Exempte from Claustrill observaunce, 
For whom I pray both day and night, 
Sithe he labored us to advaunce, 
He turned darkness into lyght, 
Intendyng to lede us to happye chaunce 
Givyng counsell to lyve aryght 
Doynge unto God no dysplesaunce." 

Then follows the ' Compende of Alchemy,' the prologue, pre- 
face, and the work divided into twelve gates, with a recapitula- 
tion of the whole ; the three last lines stand thus : — 

" Pray for me unto God that I may be of his election, 
And that he will, for one of his, on Domesday me kenne, 
And graunt me in his kingdom to raigne for ever with him. 

Amen and Amen." 



H. 



Among the MSS. of Thomas Gale in the library of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, are the following : 

Trivet's Annals in French, being a History of King Richard 
the First's expedition to Jerusalem. 

Continuatio Nicholai Trivetti per Monachum de Bridlington. 

The Compound of Alchemy, by a Cannon of Brydlington. 

De Lapide Philosophico. 

Tractatus Georgii Ripley de opere solari et lunari. 

Capitula duo excerpta ex Georgii Ripley opere, in quibus 
habentur, quae in opere quaerenda sunt et quae fugienda. 

Ioannes Bridlynton de Lapide Philosophico. 

Excerpta ex Petro de Langtoft. 



94 APPENDIX. 

In the Torr MSS. East Riding, preserved in the Library of 
the Dean and Chapter at York, is contained a list of several 
Donations to the Priory of Bridlington, (of which so complete a 
catalogue has been given by Burton from the Priory Register) 
among many others the following occur : 

"In the Town of Bridlington are 16 carucates of land, of 
which the Prior of Bridlington held 12 carucates in Frank 
Almoigne of the fee of Gaunte, and he of the King in capite for 
one Knight's Fee. 

" And 4 carucates were held of the Prior of Bridlington, who 
held them of the fee of Meynell, and he of the Abp. of Canterbury, 
and he of the King. 

" Walter de Gant, by the consent of King Henry 1st, placed 
Canons Regular in the Church of St, Mary of Bridlington, and 
gave to them all the land he had in the same town, being 13 caru- 
cates of land. 

"26th June, A.D. 1346, a commission issued out to inquire 
about the certainty of those miracles said to be done by Fr. John 
de Thweng, late Prior of Bridlington, at his tomb. 

(i The Priory of Bridlington was thus valued at the time of the 
dissolution, viz. 5471. 6s. lid." 

Here follows ' a close catalogue ' of the Priors of Bridlington- 
and a list of Testamentary Burials, which, as well as those given 
by Burton, will be found at the head of the List of Monumental In- 
scriptions now in the Church of Bridlington. 

Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, vol. i. 
p. 213. cod. 367, is a Tract, in Old English, consisting of many 
closely written folio pages, ' written by John Stowe in his owne 
hand writing.' It is a Poem consisting of stanzas of nine lines. 
In the 5th stanza are the following words : 

" according to my confession 



in ordar Chanon regular of Brydlynton, 
beseechynge y e . good Lord y'. thou wylt me spare 
this secret to fynd to thy servantes to declare." 

It is probably one of Ripley's works about the Philosopher's 
Stone. 

Vol. in. p. 95. cod. 3908. Monkish Verses in Latin, forming 



APPENDIX. 95 

a Poem of 33 pages, at the end these words: ' Versus de Bryde- 
lyngton, fact : anno dom. 1321. 

Vespasian E. vii. 134. b. In the Catalogue it is called, ' Epi- 
taph : Roberti Prions': in the Elenchus Contentorum,'Epitaphium 
Roberti Prophetae de Bridlyngton' : 

"Expliciunt versus, quos scripsit Scriba Robertus, 
Quique Prior quartus fuit, et sub humo missus, 
Infra claustra jacens de Bridlington, ubi vixit, 
Ro et ipse tacens quamvis cum patribus exit 
Doctor clarus erat ; Scriptis in dulserat iste 
Quas planas fecerat : nunc esto salus sua.'" 

Domitian ix. 17. A MS. dedicated to Humphrey de Bohun, 
Earl of Hereford, &c; at the 4th page begin the verses 'Fe- 
bribus infestus requies fuerat mihi lectus,' &c. It is a copy of 
John de Bridlington's verses with a Latin Commentary by 
Joahannes Erghom, which has been already noticed among the 
Bodleian MS. 

Vitellius E. A collection of MSS. almost all of which are 
damaged at the edges by fire. Among them are two sketches 
outlined with a pen of the Shrines of Prior Gregory, and Sir 
George Ripley, Canon. 

Cleopatra E. iv. p. 53. Original Letter from William Wode, 
last prior of Bridlington, to Sir Thomas Cromwell. 

LansdorvneMS. vol. 39. p. 72. Mention that an Exemplification 
of Charters formerly granted to Bridlington Priory took place 
6 Chas. I. 6th. Nov : on requisition of Wm. Corbett and Robert 
Purdon, and ors- 

Ibid. p. 190. Charter of Walter de Ver, son of Ada? de Gousle, 
to the Priory of Bridlington recited. 

No. 122. 6. A Poem de gestis futuris, of 12 pages long, by a 
Canon of Bridlington. 

No. 122. 7. A Prophecy of strange nations, of S£ pages small 
quarto, no date : at the end these words, " Explicit partus Roberti 
?cribae Brydlyngton." 

No. 31. 67. Original Letter from Sir Thomas Boynton to 
Lord Burleigh, bearing date A.D. 1581. 



96 



APPENDIX. 



Valet . 
Reprisa? 

Et valet cl 



I. 

Valor Ecclesiasticus, 26 Hen. VIII. 

MONASTERIUM DE BRIDLINGTON. 
Willielmus Wood Incumbens. 

. . £ 682 13 9 (this is the value according to Speed). 
. . 135 6 9i 



547 6 11| 



Comput' Ministrorum Domini Regis temp. Hen. VIII. 
(Abstract of Roll, 30 Hen. VIII., Augmentation Office.) 

BRIDLINGTON NUPER MONASTERIUM. 

Com.' Ebor.' 

Bridlington. 

£. s. d 
Redd.' ten.' ad vol' in 

West-gate - - - - 73 7 5| 
Redd' ten' ad vol' in 

Kirk-gate strete • - - 13 3 
Redd' ten' in Nun-gate 

strete ----- 7 17 8 
Redd' ten' in S' Joh' 

Gate - - - - - 28 13 2* 
Redd' ten' infra cimi- 

terium -----488 
Redd* ten' ad littus maris 11 18 
Firma terr' dnical' - - 30 8 
Firma terr', et ten' infra 

precinct.' - - - - 212 4 
Firma molend' - - - 12 
Firma piscar' - - - 1 3 4 
Firma domus tannar' - 4 
Exit' theolonig' &c. - - 1 19 11 
Perquis' cur' ----9167 

Besides rents and tythes in the following parishes : Ryghton, Wold- 
Newton, Fordon, Burton - Flemyng, Rudston, Kelke-Parva, Leberston, 
Graystroppe, Kyllome, Nasterton, Wannesforth, Haystropp, Kelke-Magna, 
Thyrnam, Folketon, Flyxton, Flotmanby, Hunmanby, Befforth, Burneston, 
Willerdby, Staxton, Benyngton, Sherborne, Potterbrounton, Gamelton, 
Skypsy, Beverlay, Ulrome, Foxhooles. 



Frnysthorp, Rector' - - 2 
Hilderthorpe, Capella - 5 
Willesthorpe, Capella - 3 
Carneby, Rector' - - 12 
Awborne, Capella - - 2 
Eston, Decimae - - - 8 
Sewardby et Marton 
Decima' - - - - - 25 

Brydlington, Firma Rec- 
tor'* ------ 40 

Besynby, Capella - - - 10 
Bempton, Newsom, 
Speton, Capella? - 
Buckton, Capella 
Grendale, Capella 
Boynton, Rector' - - 
Fynely, Rector' - - 
Flamborough Rector' 









8 





10 


13 


4 


1 !• 








16 








6 








20 








32 









The Tithe Farm. 



APPENDIX. 97 

Extract from Act of 27th Hen. VIII. for dissolving the lesser 
religious houses.— See Burn's Eccl. Law, vol. II. p. 533. 8th 
Edit. Art. Monasteries. 

" Forasmuch as manifest sin, vicious, carnal and abominable 
living is daily used and committed commonly in such little and 
small abbeys, priories, and other religious houses of monks, 
canons, and nuns, where the congregation of such religious 
persons is under the number of twelve persons ; whereby the 
governors of such religious houses, and their convent, spoil, 
consume, and utterly waste as well their churches, monasteries, 
priories, principal houses, farms, granges, lands, tenements, and 
hereditaments, as the ornaments of their churches, and their 
goods and chattels, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, 
slander of good religion, and to the great infamy of the King's 
highness and the realm, if redress should not be had thereof: 
and albeit that many continual visitations have been heretofore 
had by the space of two hundred years and more for anhonestand 
charitable reformation of such unthrifty, carnal, and abominable 
living ; yet, nevertheless, little or no amendment is hitherto had, but 
their vicious living shamelessly increaseth, and by a cursed custom 
is so rooted and infected, that a great multitude of the religious 
persons in such small houses do rather choose to rove abroad in 
apostacy, than to conform themselves to the observation of good 
religion : so that without such small houses be utterly suppressed, 
and the religious persons therein committed to great and honour- 
able monasteries of religion in this realm, where they may be 
compelled to live religiously for reformation of their lives, the 
same else be no redress nor reformation in that behalf. In con- 
sideration whereof, the King's most royal Majesty being supreme 
head on earth, under God, of the church of England, daily 
studying and devising the increase, advancement and exaltation 
of true doctrine and virtue in the said church, and the extirpating 
and destruction of vice and sin, having .knowledge that the 
premises be true, as well by the accounts of his late visitations, 
as by sundry credible informations : considering also that divers 
and great solemn monasteries of this realm, wherein (thanks to 

H 



98 APPENDIX. 

God) religion is right well kept and preserved, be destitute of 
such full number of religious persons, as they ought and may 
keep, hath thought good that a plain declaration should be made 
of the premises as well to the lords spiritual and temporal as to 
other his loving subjects the commons in this present Parliament 
assembled. Whereupon the said lords and commons by a great 
deliberation, finally resolved, that it is and shall be much more to 
the pleasure of Almighty God and for the honour of this his realm, 
that the possessions of such small religious houses now being 
spent, spoiled, and wasted for increase and maintenance of sin, 
should be committed to better uses, and the unthrifty religious 
persons so spending the same be compelled to reform their lives. 
Thereupon it is enacted, that his majesty shall have and enjoy 
to him and his heirs for ever, all such monasteries, priories and 
other religious houses of monks, canons, and nuns of what kinds 
of habits, rules, or order whatsoever they be, which have not in 
lands, tenements, rents, tithes, portions, and other hereditaments, 
above the clear yearly value of 200/: and also all such as within 
one year next before have been surrendered to the king or other- 
wise dissolved." 



K. 



BRIDLINGTON TOWN CHARTER. 

This Charter was granted by Charles the First to certain 
of the inhabitants, November 1st. 1630. A translated copy of 
the original is in the possession of George Hodgson, Esq., 
who caused it to be made as Chief Lord of the Manor, in 1817. 
From this have been copied King John's Charter respecting 
the fair — King Stephen's Charter respecting wreck of the 
Sea, &c. — Edward IV's grant of Scarborough church to the 
Prior and Convent of Bridlington. 

In the Lansdowne MSS. Brit. Mus., vol. 39. p. 72., there is a 
copy of the Charter, ending with the following remark : " These 
letters patent, made at the request of William Corbett and 
Robert Prudam." 



APPENDIX. 99 



PEDIGREE OF BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. 

1. Richard Boyle, bom A.D. 1566, the Founder of this Family, 
created Lord Boyle by King James the First, A.D. 1616, and 
subsequently Viscount Dungarvon and Earl of Cork. 

2. Richard Boyle, created Lord Clifford, of Londesborough, Com. 
Ebor., for his loyalty to Charles I. and by reason of his marriage 
with the heiress of Henry, Earl of Cumberland, of Skipton Castle, 
in Craven ; and subsequently by letters patent, dated March 20. 
16th Charles II. created Earl of Burlington, or Bridlington, Com. 
Ebor. The celebrated Robert Boyle was his youngest brother. 

3. Charles died before his father. 

4. Charles succeeded his grandfather, A.D. 1697. 

5. Richard succeeded A.D. 1703, and dying without male 
issue, the English title became extinct, and the Yorkshire estates 
passed by marriage into the family of Cavendish, Duke of 
Devonshire, the present possessor. 



L. 



IMPROPRIATORS OF THE GREAT TITHES OF BRIDLINGTON. 

The Rectory of Bridlington was seized by the crown A.D. 
1537, on the dissolution of the monastery, and granted on lease, 
by deed, dated 1538, for 21 years, to John Avery, 

at a rental of £ per an. 

By deed, dated 12th March, 5th Edw. VI., for 21 years, to 
John Calverley, at a rental of £40. per an. 

By letters patent, dated 8th July, 8th Elizabeth, for 40 years, to 
Thomas Waiferer &ors, at a rental of £32. per an. 

By deed, dated 9th April, 1591, for 40 years, to John Stanhope, 
at a rental of £ per an. 

By deed, dated for years, to Win. Wood & ors, 

at a rental of £ per an. 

By deed, dated 24th April, 42nd Elizabeth, for 40 years, to 
Francis Boynton, at a rental of £70. per an. 

L.ofC. h 2 



100 APPENDIX. 

By letters patent, dated 28th July, 9th James I., the King 
granted to Francis Morice and Francis Phelips, their heirs, &c, 
" all the rectory and church of Bridlington, and all the tithes, 
&c, subject to an annual stipend of £8, for the maintenance of 
the perpetual curate of the parish." 

By Indre, dated 10th James I., I G 13, Morice and Phelips 
conveyed the Rectory to Frs. Boynton, of Barnston, Knt., except- 
ing the advowson, which had been reserved by the crown. 

From Sir Matthew Boynton, Knt. and Bart., (son to the above) 
it passed in the 13th Charles I, to Henry Fairfax, of the parish of 
St. James, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. (son 
to a Fairfax, of Gilling.) 

By an heiress daur of the above, A.D. 1669, it came into the 
possession of the Earl of Buchan. 

By Indre, dated 10 July 1729, 3. George II., it was conveyed 
by the Right Hon. David, Earl of Buchan, to Leonard Bower, 
of Bridlington Quay, Esq. 

By Indre, dated 8th Feb. 1759, it was conveyed by Leonard 
Bower, to James Heblethwayte, of Bridlington, Esq., in whose 
family it still remains. 



Patent of '33d year of Queen Elizabeth, dated 9th April, A.D. 1591, 
granting on lease for 40 years to John Stanhope, Esq., the 
manor and rectory of Bridlington, including the site and precinct 
of the late dissolved Monastery. 

By the tenor of this deed John Stanhope is empowered " to 
have and to hold all and singular the aforesaid grants to the said 
formerly monastery of Bridlington, the manor and rectory, &c. 
excepting eight pounds out of the aforesaid parish church of 
Bridlington, arising and for the salary of a curate, or priest, who 
shall perform divine service, and have the charge of souls there." 
The lessee is also permitted to take all the old stones on the site of 
the said late monastery remaining, and not yet sold or laid out 
for the purpose of repairing the pier and harbour, then in great 
ruin and decay. 



APPENDIX. 101 

Grant from King James the First, A.D. 1624, to Ramsay, Earl 
of Holderness, of Scarborough Castle, and of the Priory and 
Tithes of Bridlington. 

" Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. Salutem. Cum predilectus et 
perquam fidelis consanguineus noster Johannes Ramsey, Dominus 
Ramsey de Barnis, Vicecomes Hadington, et Comes de Holder- 
ness quam plurima vera bona et fidelissima servitia nobis ante hac 
praestitit et praesertim fidelissimum servitium suum in personam 
nostram regiam defendendo et liberando ab infidiosa et duorum 

fratrum Gaurianorum nefaria conjuratione quos ad caput nostrum 

C. m . V; - . rentes 

mnojfente^C et in armatum saexissime lycrnrcs tortunata manu ex- 

animavit, in cujus opportunum subsidium, &c Sciatis quod 

nos .... damuset concedimus praefato Johanni Comiti de Holder- 
ness . . . totum ilium scitum castri nostri de Scarborough in 
comitatu nostro Eboracensi . . . necnon totum ilium scitum circui- 
tum ambitum et praecinctum nuper Monasterii de Bridlington in 
nostro comitatu Eboracensi ac omnia et singula domos aedificia 
structuras, stabula, columbaria, hortos, pomaria, terram, funda- 
mentum, et solum, &c." 



Extract from the Bishoj) of Lincoln's Primary Charge in 1827. 

" By these appropriations the revenues, originally given by 
pious individuals for the maintenance of the parochial minister, 
were transferred to religious bodies, and in some cases even to 
laymen, on the condition that they should provide for the 
service of the church, — a condition which they for the most part 
endeavoured to fulfil at the least possible cost to themselves. 
While they contrived to reserve the larger portion of the produce 
of the benefice to their own use, they assigned a small stipend to 
the vicar or chaplain, who actually discharged the duties, and 
watched over the spiritual interests of the parishioners. When the 
religious houses were dissolved, an opportunity offered itself of 
remedying these evils, and restoring to the parochial minister 



102 APPENDIX. 

the revenues which had, to the great injury of the cause of 
religion, been diverted to other purposes. Not only, however, 
was the opportunity lost, but the evil itself rendered perpetual 
by the measures then adopted. It may be alleged that, at that 
period, the possessions of the church bore too large a proportion 
to the whole property of the country, and that a formidable obstacle 
was thereby thrown in the way o( its growing prosperity. Yet, 
if it was desirable to withdraw a part, the alienation of the landed 
estates of the religious houses might surely have been sufficient ; 
the tithes might have reverted to their original destination, — the 
maintenance of the parochial clergy. It was, however, found more 
convenient to act upon the principle to which I have already 
alluded, and which has never wanted its advocates — the principle, 
that the ecclesiastical revenues are at the absolute disposal of 
the state. Of the property then vested in the crown, only a 
small portion was applied, either directly or indirectly, to the 
religious instruction of the people, the greater part was distributed 
among the favourites of the reigning monarch. The power which 
the bishops had always claimed, and frequently exercised, of 
increasing from time to time the payments made to the officiating 
clergy, was taken away ; their stipends, which the alteration in 
the value of money had, in conjunction with other causes, reduced 
to miserable pittances, became perpetual, and the income of a large 
proportion of the benefices throughout the kingdom was rendered 
totally inadequate to the support of the minister." 

"If this truth [the necessity of clerical residence'] had been 
kept in view in the times which preceded the reformation of our 
church, we should not now have to deplore our inability to 
realize it in our practice. The appropriation of tithes to religious 
houses, and the subsequent substitution of poor vicars and curates 
for a well endowed clergy, were one principal cause of the decay 
and ruin of glebe houses, accompanied as it was complained at 
the time by a ' desertion of the parishioners, a subduction of 
hospitality, and a neglect of the cure of souls.'" — The Bishop of 
London's Primary Charge in 1830. 



APPENDIX. 10$ 

" His Majesty King Charles the First would, upon occasional 
discourses, express some dislike in King Henry's proceedings in 
misemploying the vast revenues, the suppressed abbies, monas- 
teries, and other religious houses were endowed with, and by 
demolishing those many beautiful and stately structures, which 
both expressed the greatness of their founders, and preserved the 
splendour of the kingdom, which might, at the reformation, have 
been in some measure kept up and converted to sundry pious 
uses." — Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs. 

The reader is also referred to some excellent remarks on the 
subject of Lay Impropriations, in p. 159, of a work entitled " the 
Case between the Church and the Dissenters impartially and prac- 
tically considered," by the Rev. Francis Merewether, M.A., Rector 
of Cole Orton, and Vicar of Whitwick, Leicestershire. 



M. 

EXTRACT FROM BACON's LIBER REGIS. 

Diocese of York. — Archdeaconry of East Riding. — Rural 
Deanry of Dyckering. 



Parish. 




Proprietor. 


Patron. Falut 


i in K. B. 












£. ,. d. 


Boynton 


V. 


Prior ( 


)f Bridlington 


Sir W. Strickland Bart 


26 8 6 


Carnaby 


V. 


Ditto 




Ditto 


43 4 


Awburn 


c. 


Ditto 




Ditto 


2 13 4 


Bempton 


c. 


Ditto 




John Broadley Esq. 


13 6 8 


Bessingby 


c. 


Ditto 




Harrington Hudson Esq. 


5 6 8 


Bridlington 


c. 


Ditto 




The Archbishop of York 


8 


Filey 


c. 


Ditto 




Humphrey Osbaldeston Es<j 


[.16 


Flambrough C. 


Ditto 




Walter Strickland Esq. 


16 


Fraisthorp 


c. 


Ditto 




Sir W. Strickland Bart. 


3 


Grindal 


c. 


Ditto 




John Greame Esq. 


5 


Speeton 


c. 


Ditto 




Robt. Denison Esq. 


3 5 6 



The Perpetual Curacy of Bridlington is valued at £83. 10j. in the 
Parliamentary Returns. 



104 APPENDIX. 



A true and perfect Terrier of the Curacy of Bridlington, 
a.d. 1825. 

" The sum of 8/. per ann. paid by half yearly payments out of 
the Great Tithes by the Impropriator. The sum of 25/. being 
the annual rent of lands, purchased by Queen Anne's bounty at 
Kildholme. The sum of 19/. being the annual rent of lands 
purchased, at Bonwick in Holderness, with 200/. left by the late 
Rev. M. fii - info . and 200/. Queen Anne's bounty. The sum of 
13/. per arm., for Wednesday's Lecture, left by Mr. Cowton. 
The sum of 40/. being the annual rent of lands at Beeford in 
Holderness, purchased with Parliamentary Grants, and 24/. per 
ann. being the interest of 600/. Parliamentary Grants now in the 
hands of the governors of Queen Anne's bounty." 



The Register of the Parish of Bridlington commences A.D. 1564, 
and has been n-ell preserved and kept. 

The following is selected as a specimen of several recorded 
solemnizations of matrimony, before the justices of the peace, 
by whom they are signed, as was the custom during the Com- 
monwealth, when marriage was declared a civil contract, and not 
a religious ceremony : 

" John Ruston, the son of Christopher Ruston, husbandman, 
and Dorithie Smith, the daughter of Christopher Smith, spinster, 
both of the town and parish of Bridlington, published three 
several Lord's days, that is to say, November 13th, 20th, and 
27th, and married before Sir William Strickland, at Boynton the 
13th of December, 1653, Wm. Strickland." 

Church Furniture, — " three bells, a clock, communion plate, 
consisting of two flagons, a chalice with a cover, and two 
plates to collect alms, being plated, (the old communion plate of 
silver was stolen) one communion table, with a covering for the 
same of crimson velvet and gold fringe, and two cushions with 
the like covering. A library of books is kept in the church 
(from Dr. Bray's libraries) for the clergy." 



APPENDIX. 105 

The chancel of the church is repaired by the impropriator. 

The following works are placed in two wooden desks in the 
south aisle of the chancel: — 

Jewell's Controversial Works, Ed. 1611. 

Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie, Ed. 1682. 

Comber's Companion to the Temple, Ed. 1684. 

Heylin's Ecclesia Vindicata, or Church of England justified, 
Ed. 1681. 



N. 



BRIDLINGTON FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

In the time of Charles the First, A.D. 1636, about a century 
after the dissolution of the monastery, William Hustler, an in- 
habitant of the place, granted in his life- time the sum of forty 
pounds yearly out of his estates for the maintenance of a school- 
master and usher in a school-house, by him to be founded and 
erected. The former was to receive forty marks, and the latter 
twenty marks yearly ; the payments to be made quarterly, the first 
on the feast of the purification of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the 
north porch of Bridlington Church. The children were to be 
taught and instructed in the art of grammar, and otherwise. 
It was doubtless the intention of the benevolent founder, that 
the master of this school should be a clergyman of the established 
church, and for some time it was held accordingly by the 
minister of the parish, or his curate, and the parish clerk was 
the under-master. In the year 1819, however, the Lord Chancellor 
abolished the office of usher, and directed the whole stipend to 
be paid to a resident master ; the inhabitants of the town having 
represented that this office had been made a sinecure through 
non-residence for some time. The present master is also the 
parish clerk, by whom twenty boys, the children of poor pa- 
rishioners, are instructed in grammar, reading, writing, and 
arithmetic, on this foundation. 



106 APPENDIX. 



THE KNITTING SCHOOL. 

A school, for the education of twelve poor children, in carding, 
spinning, and knitting wool, was founded by William Bower in 
the year 1781. 

THE NATIONAL SCHOOL. 

This institution was first contemplated in the year 1817, 
when a meeting having been held to concert proper measures 
for carrying the charitable design into effect, the rules in- 
tended for the regulation of the school, together with a list 
of subscribers and benefactors, were first printed and circulated. 
A correspondence with xh& central Diocesan Society at York 
was entered into, from a donation of 30/., wn)<£h was granted 
for the fitting up of a school-room. The room over the Bayle 
Gate was then used for this purpose. A supply of school books 
was also furnished gratis for the use of the school by the Society 
at York, who also recommended a master, by whom the sehool 
was opened early in the year 1818. During the first year, 159 boys 
were admitted as scholars. In the year 1822, the Parent Society 
in London granted 300/. towards building two school-rooms, each 
to contain 200 children, boys and girls. This liberal grant having 
been seconded by an active co-operation on the part of the 
inhabitants, the two school-rooms were completed and opened 
in the year 1826, being built on a piece of ground purchased 
and conveyed to trustees, for the benefit of the charity, at an 
expence of more than 900/. About 300 children, on an average, 
are now educated here. 



BRIDLINGTON PUBLIC CHARITIES. 

Among several smaller bequests of the same kind, we may 
notice the following : — 

In the year 1696, the rent of certain lands was bequeathed, by 
will, by Henry Cowton, to be thus applied : viz. to the clergyman, 
five shillings weekly for a sermon every Wednesday ; to the poor, 



APPENDIX. 107 

six and eight-pence weekly in bread ; and to the parish clerk, one 
shilling weekly for distributing the same. 

In the year 1734, Timothy Woolfe bequeathed, by will, the 
sum of 500/. to purchase land, the rent of which is to be dis- 
tributed among the poor for ever. 

In the year 1795, Isaac Wall bequeathed, by will, the interest 
of 1000/. 3 per cent, consols, to be distributed amongst the 
poor, half of it in bread every Sunday, and the other half in coals 
upon Christmas Eve, for ever. 



No District Committee has yet been established in the town 
and neighbourhood, in behalf of the Society for Promoting Chris- 
tian Knowledge : or the Society for the Propagation of the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts, in connection with the Committee 
established at Beverley, for the Archdeaconry of the East Riding, 
or the Diocesan Committee at York. 



Extract from Burns Eccl. Law, vol. n. p. 545. 8th edit. 

" The monasteries were schools of learning and education, for 
every convent had one person or more appointed for this pur- 
pose ; and all the neighbours that desired it, might have their 
children taught grammar and church music there, without any 
expence to them. In the nunneries also young women were 
taught to work and read, and not only the lower rank of people, 
but most of the noblemen's and gentlemen's daughters were 
taught in these places. All the monasteries were, in effect, great 
hospitals, and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor 
people every day. They were likewise houses of entertainment 
for almost all travellers." 



103 APPENDIX. 



The Discripcun of the Monastery or Pryory of Byrdlington withe 
the Churche there, beyng in dystance halfe a myle from the See. 

The Gate-House: — Ffurste the Priory of Bridlyngton 
stondyth on the Est parte of the Towne of Brydlyngton, and at 
the cummyng yn of the same Priory is a Gatehouse foure 
square of Toure facyon, buylded with Ffrestone, and well covered 
with leade. And one the South Syde of the same Gatehouse ys 
a Porter's lodge wt a Chymney, a rounde Stayre ledyng up to a 
hye Chamber wherein the three Weks Courte ys alwayes kept in 
vf l a Chymney in the same, and betweene the Stayre foote and the 
same hie Chamber where the Courte ys kepte be tow proper 
Chambers one above the other w* Chymneys. In the Northe 
syde of the same Gatehouse ys there a Prison for offenders, 
w*in the Towne called the Kydcott. And in the same Northsyde 
ys a lyke payre of Stayres ledyng up to one hye Chamber in the 
same Towre with a Chymney. 

M d . that all the Wyndowes of the sayd Towre be clerely w*oute 
glasse. 

Lodgyngs and Stables for Straungers : — Itm one the 
Northsyde of the same Gatehouse, to the Priory warde, be 
dyvers Lodgyns and Stable for Stravingers wiche be greatly in 
decaye for lacke of reparacyon and covered with slatt. 

The Churche. — Ffurst the seid Churche ys well buylded w* 
stone and tymber and cov°ed w* lead, whiche Churche conteynyth 
in lenthe from the ende of the parysshe Churche Estward lviij 
pac's and in bredyth xxvj pac's. 

The Steple beyng Towre ffashyon ys highe & daungerously 
in decaye. 

There be in the same Steple seven Bells mete to be rongen 
all at one time yff yt so happen. 

The seyd Churche ys devided the on part for the Pryory and 
Covent and the nether parte for the parysshe Churche. 



APPENDIX. 109 

The on part of the seyd Churche ys well coveryd vv 1 Waynscott. 

The Stalls of the Quear be substancyall and newly made aft r 
the right goodly fashyon. 

The Reredose at the highe Alter representyng Criste at the 
Assumpcyon of our Lady and the xij Appostells, w* dyvers othe 
great Imagys, beyng of a great heyght, ys excellently well 
wrought and as well gylted, and betwene the same and the Est 
Wyndow ys Saynt John of Brydlyngton Shryne, in a fayre 
Chappel on hyhe, having on ayther syde a stayre of Stone for 
to goo and cume by. 

It'm undernethe the sayde Shryne be fyve Chappells w* fyve 
alters and small Tables of Alleblaster and Imag's. 

It'in towe lytle Closetts of waynscott on eyther syde the quear 
one w 1 Alters. 

Item a lytle Chapell w l yron gratys of eyther syde conteyneth 
in lenght v. pac's and a halfe. 

It'm the South yle of the quear contayneth lvj pac's in length 
& iiij pac's in breddyth, w* narrowe Glasse Wyndowes, ev'ry one 
of theym of one hyghte, and toowe Wyndows w l fyve lyghts a 
pece. And a double Storye all white Glasse. 

Item the North yle of the quear conteynyth lvj pace in lenght 
and foure in bredyth, w e a xj narrowe Glasse Wyndowes of one 
hyght whyte Glasse. 

It'm in the Est ende of the Churche ys a xj Wyndows, 
whereof x be of one lyghte and one of three lyghts. 

It'm on the South Syde of the same Churche ys the Vestrye 
well covered with lead. 

The Pryors Lodgyng: — There standith on the South syde of 
the seid Churche the Priors Lodgyng, wherein ys a hawle, to 
the whiche hall ledyth a Stayre of iiij foote brode and of xx 
Steppys highe, whiche Stayres be on the South Syde of the same 
hall; the seyd hall conteyneth in length from the Skyven to the 
highe Deske xviij pac's, and in breddith x pac's, and well covered 
with lede. 

It' on the North Syde of the same Hall ys there a great 
Chamber where the Priour alwayes dyned, conteynyng in lenght 
xx pac's, and in breddyth ix pac's, well coveryd withe lede. 



110 APPENDIX. 

It' at the west ende of the same great Chamber ys there a proper 
ytle Chamber whiche was the Priors slepyng Chamber, covered 
w 1 lede ; and ov' the same Chamber ys a Garrett. 

It* at the Est syde of the same great Chamber ys a lytle 
Chappell, with a Closett adioynyng to the same. 

It' at the South ende of the Hawle ys the Buttrie and Pantrie 
under one Office, and one the same ende a Chamber called the 
Audytors Chamber. 

It' at the same ende of the Hawle, & on the west syde ys a fayre 
plo'r, or a Chamber called the lowe Som' parlo'r, ov' the whiche 
Som' Parlor or Chamber ys another ffayre Chamber covered w 1 
lede, and adioynyng to the same highe Chamber on the Est Syde 
be thre lytle Chambers for Servaunts. 

It' at the South ende of the same Hawle ys the Pryors Kechyn, 
whiche ys an olde Kechyn w*. three lovers covered w* lede, and 
adjoynyng to the same Kechyn ys there a Chamber called the 
South Sellerers Chamber. 

The Cloyster. — It'm on the Est syde of the Pryors Hawle 
stondythe the Cloyster, whiche conteynyth in length xxxviij pac's 
and in breddyth foure pac's and so foure square w x lyke length 
and breddyth, and well cov°ed w* lede. 

The Fratrie.— It' on the South Syde of the same Cloyster ys 
the Ffratre whiche conteynyth in length xxiij pac's & in bred- 
dyth, x pac's buylded w« ffree stone and well covered with lede. 

The Chapter House. — It' on the Est syde of the same 
Cloyster ys a very fayre Chapter House w 1 ix fayre lyghts 
aboute the same, wt whyte glasse and sume Imagerie, coveryd 
w l lede spere facyon. 

The Dortor. — It' on the same syde of the Cloyster ys the 
Dorto r goyng up a payre of stayres of stone xx steppes highe, 
lying North & South, & conteynyth in length lxviij pac's and 
in breddyth ix pac's, also well covered wyth lede, and at the 
South ende and West syde of the same Dortor ys a long house of 
Offyce covered with slatt. 

The Tresaurie House. — It' at the ende & syde ys the 
Tresaurie House covered w« lede and tower fashion, whiche ys 
a Strong House. 



APPENDIX. Ill 

The Old Ffratrie w« the Ffarmorye.' — It'm on the Est 
Syde of the same Dortor ys the olde ffratrie and farmory, co- 
vered w l lede and under one Rooff, and on the Est Syde of the 
same ffratrie ys a Chamber covered w* lede, called the Highe 
Cellerers Chamber. 

Saynt Cudberdds Chappell. — It' on the Est Syde of the 
same ffarmory ys a Chappell called the farmory Chappell' other- 
wyse called Saynt Cudbardds Chappell' whiche ys well covered 
with lede. 

The New Chamber. — It' on the North syde of the same 
Chappell ys a propre new buyldyng called the New Chamber, in 
whiche S r Robt Constable muche laye in ; covered wt slatt. 

The Bakehouse and Brewe House. — It' on the South Syde 
of the same Monast'y ys a Bakehouse and a Brewehouse whiche 
by reporte of olde men was sumtyme a Nunrie. By syght the 
Bakehouse was the Body of the Churche, the Rooff whereof is 
covered w' slatt and the lies w' lede. The Brewe House ys 
where the quere semed to be ; and ys coveryd w' lede adjoynyng 
imto the Est part of the Bakehouse. 

The Mylne. — It' on the Northsyde of the same Bakehouse 
and Brewehouse standyth a ffayre Horse Mylne newly buyldyd 
& covered w< Slatt 

The Barne Yarde. — It' there ys a great Barne Yarde on the 
Northsyde of the seyd Pryorye cont' by estymacyon foure Acres. 

The Barne. — It'm there ys on the Northsyde of the same 
Barne Yarde a very fayre Barne conteynyng in length Est and 
West, Cxvij pac's, and in breddith xxvij pac's well covered with 
lede to the value of fyve hundred m'ks, and so yt ys offered for. 

The Garnerd. — It' on the South syde of the same Barne 
standyth a Garnerd to lay Come in, conteynyng in length North 
& South, xxvj yards, and in breddyth x yards covered with lede. 

The Malthouse. — It' on the Est syde of the same Garnerd 
standyth the Malthouse cont' in length North and South xliiij 
yerds, and in breddith xvij yards, well covered w* lede ; and on 
the North syde of the same Malthouse standyth a prety House 
with a Chamber where the Hervest men dyd alwayes dyne, 
covered with slatt. 



112 



APPENDIX. 



The Kylne House. — It'm on the Est syde of the same Malt- 
house standith a Kylne House covered with slatt. 

Oi.de Stables and Oxestalles. — lt'm on the Est & West 
syde of the Barne Yerde standyth olde Stables, Oxestall's, w* 
other olde houses buylded w* stone, covered w' slatt, greatly in 
decaye. 

Rychard Pollard. 



Mr. Caley observes, " The Survey is without date ; but, from its having 
the signature of Richard Pollard, who was one of the King's general surveyors, 
the time of its being written may be fixed at about the 32nd year of 
Henry VIII., immediately after the Dissolution." 



Dimensions of that part of the ancient Priory Church at present 
remaining. 



Height of the walls . . . . 
Length of the interior . . . 
Breadth of the interior . . . 
Difference between the angle 
of the ancient & modern roof 
Height of the piers .... 
Heightofthe great west window 



Feet. 
67 
185 



n 

20 
55 



Feet. 

Breadth of the great west win- 
dow below the transom . . 29 

Breadth above the transom . 31 

Height of the gallery over the 

great west door .... 15 

Breadth of the gallery ... 3* 



* The gallery, on the south side of the church, is of similar dimensions ; 
but being carried along above the crown of the arches, it is fifteen feet 
higher than the gallery over the west door, the top of which is on a level 
with the tops of the piers.— (See Plate V.) 



APPENDIX. 



P. 



BURTONS MONAST. EBOR. AND TORR S MSS., ARCHDEACONRY OF 
EAST RIDING, p. 949. 

Persons recorded to have been buried in Bridlington Priory Church : 

Gilbert, son of Walter de Gant, the founder of the Monastery ; 
and Gilbert, son of Gilbert de Gant, who died, A. D. 1214. 
2nd Edw. I. — Dugd. Bar. vol. i. p. 400. 

Thomas de Alost, Thomas de Melsa, Thorald, son of Ralph 
de Gousle ; William, son of John de Hundemanby ; Agnes, 
daughter of Ernold de Marton; William Constable of Flayn- 
burgh ; John, son of William de Rudestan ; Alan de Rudestan, 
and Philip, the chaplain of Willardby. — Register of the Priory. 



Persons who by mill ordered their bodies to be interred here : 

John de Speton, by will proved 14th Nov. 1346, ordered his 
corpse to be interred against Joan, his late wife, in the church of 
St. Mary of Bridlington. 

Sir William de Erghum, knt., by will proved 2nd April, 1S47, 
directed his corpse to be buried here. 

Maud de Buckton, in A. D. 1407, ordered her body to be 
buried here. 

Peter de Mauley, eighth lord of Mulgrave, by will proved 
14th Sept., 1415, ordered his body to be buried in the church of 
St. John of Bridlington. 

Robert Tavernor, of Bridlington, by his testament proved 
27th May, 1430, ordered his body to be buried here. 

Richard Bernard, of Speton, by his will proved 5th May, 1451, 
was interred here. 

William Sywardby, of Sywardby, Esq., by his will proved 
22nd Dec, 1452, directed his body to be buried within the 



114 APPENDIX. 

conventual church of Bridlington, where his progenitors rest in 
the Lord. 

John Marflete, of Bridlington, by will proved 26th March, 
1453, was interred here. 

Thomas Arden, of Marton, near Bridlington, Esq., by will 
proved 16th Jan., 1455, ordered his body to be buried in the 
kyrk of Bridlington. 

Margaret Arden, his wife, by her will proved 8th July, 1458, 
ordered her body to be laid near her husband. 

William Keling, of Bridlington, by will proved 18th Jan., 1458, 
ordered his body to be interred in the Monastery of St. Mary 
and St. John, of Bridlington. 

John Rotheram, of Bridlington, by will proved in A. D. 1458, 
was buried here. 

Richard Rotheram, of Bridlington, chapman, by his will 
proved 24th Feb., 1463, was buried here. 

John Somerby, of Bridlington, by his will proved 28th May, 
1497, ordered his body to be buried in the church of our blessed 
lady St. Mary of Bridlington. 

Sir John Somerby, CI., vicar of Muston, ordered by his 
testament proved 3rd Nov., 1519, that his corpse should be 
buried in the Monastery of Bridlington. 

John Dynely, of Bridlington Kye, gent., by his will proved 
3rd Dec, 1573, ordered his corpse to be interred in the church 
of Bridlington, within the old queare. 

Thomas Etherington, of Bridlington, by his testament proved 
11th Feb., 1596, directed his body to be laid on the north side 
of this church. 

Samuel Scrivenor, of Bridlington, gent., by will dated 14th 
June, A. D. 1626, ordered his body to be interred in the parish 
church of Bridlington. 



The epitaph of Robert the Scribe has been preserved by Le- 
land, ' Robertus Scriba, quartus Prior.' 

The tomb of Prior John de Twenge is mentioned when Alex- 
ander de Neville, Archbishop of York, issued a commission to 



APPENDIX. 115 

inquire into the truth of the miracles said to be performed 
at it. 

The shrine of St. John tie Bridlington, behind the high altar of 
the Priory Church, is described by Henry the Eighth's comriris- 
sioneKs previous to the demolition of the choir. 

The tombstone of Prior Robert Danby was discovered on the 
site of the old choir, but not preserved. 

Representations of the shrines of Prior Gregory de Bridling- 
ton, and of Sir George Ripley, canon of Bridlington, are pre- 
served among the M SS. in the British Museum. 



MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN BRIDLINGTON PRIORY CHURCH. 

In the Vestry. 

Hie jacet Robertus Brystvyk quondam Prior hujus loci qui 
obiit anno domini milesimo quadragesimo nonagesimo tertio cujus 
animae propicietur Deus. Amen. 

Hie jacet Robertus Charder Canonichus qui obiit [Anno Do- 
mini milesimo quingen] tesimo tricesimo quinto. 

Hie reponuntur cineres Joannes Elleray qui sacerdotale munus 
hujus ecclesias xxix Annorum sustinuit obiit xxx die Septembris 
Anno Domini mdccxlviii aetatis suae lx. 

The Rev. Joseph Wade, many years Curate of this Parish, 
died 11th February, 1820. 

In the Chancel, on the Pillars of the S. Aisle. 
The Rev. Cornelius Rickaby, Minister of this Parish, died the 
24th March, 1786, aged 76 years. 

Statutum est omnibus semel mori. 

To the memory of Anna Mathurina de Beriot, born of an 
ancient family, 2nd Jan., 1727, at Javinque, in the Austrian 
Netherlands, married at Brussels 29th Sept., 1749, to Nathaniel 
Pigott, of York, Esq. She died at Bridlington Quay, 13th 
August, 1792. 

i 2 



116 APPENDIX. 

" Near this place lie the bodies of Thomas Wilson, merchant, 
and Lucy his wife, who had issue six sons and two daughters. 
He died 24th Feb., 1718, atat. 74; and she, 7th Aug., 1723, 
ardt. 59." 

On the Floor of the Chancel. 

" Simon, son of John Dodsworth, late of Scarbro', died A.D. 
1685." 

Round the margin of a blue slab : — " Here lieth William Bower 
of Bridlington Key. Merchant, departed, this. life. the. 23. of 
March 1671. in. the. 74 yeare. of. his. age. and Thomisin. the 
wife of the said Will departed the 14 of Sept. 57 aged 59." 

In the centre, three coats of arms, and motto to one, " Deus 
dabit vela:" — " He did in his life time erect at his ovvne charge in 
Bridlington a Schoole House : and gave to it 20 ^ spAN for 
ever for maintaining and educating of the poore children of Brid- 
lington and Key in the art of carding knitting and spining of 
wooll." 

A long grey slab, with a grove for a brass label in the middle: 
the label gone. 

A long slab, more than twelve feet in length, with three Mal- 
tese cropes, placed in a triangle upon it, but no inscription. 

On a brass tablet, between two cherubs' heads and wings, 
of brass, " MS. — Priscillse nuper uxoris Rogeri Woodburn, qua; 
diem clausit supremam x°. die Augusti Anno salutis humana 
1715 atatisque sua; 26, cujus exuvias in lactam et felicem resur- 
rectionis diem mastissimus viduus curavit hie reponi. 

Omnia debentur fato patuinque morali. 

Serins aut citius sedem properamus ad unam." 

On a Pillar in North Aisle of Chancel. 
Tablet in memory of Wm. Bower, of Key, merchant, who died 
9th May, 1707. 

Within the Altar Rails, on the right side. 
" Sacred to the memory of James Heblethwaite, Esq., whose 
ancestors resided many years at Norton, in this county. Died 



APPENDIX. 117 

Nov. ii. MDecLxxiii, aged XLvi, and was buried near this marble. 
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Johnson ; had issue six- 
teen children ; seven of whom deceased infants : Mary married 
Sir Griffith Boynton, Bart. Mary Heblethwaite, his wife, died 
July 12, 1815, aged 83. William Heblethwaite, Esq., their 
eldest son, died 23d Sept., 1808, aged 59. Harriot Hebleth- 
waite, their daughter, died 7th April, 1827, aged 64." 

On a slab on the floor : — " Mrs. Jane Skinner, wife of Ald m . 
W m . .Skinner, of Hull, who died the 19th July, 1727." 

In memory of Thomas Pitts, Esq., who died 1787; and three 
brothers of the name of Pitts, who fell in the service of their 
country, A.D. 1806 and 1814. 

In the North Aisle of the Chancel. 

" Near this place lie the remains of Ralph Creyke, of Marton, 
Esq., who departed this life 24th May, 1826, aged 80 years. 
He married Jane, fifth daughter of Richard Langley, of Wykeham 
Abbey, Esq., (by Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of 
Boynton Boynton, of Rawcliffe, Esq. ;) had issue nine children, 
two sons and seven daughters, of whom Gregory, Catharine and 
Agnes died before him. By a numerous circle of friends and 
acquaintances he was loved, and honored, for his amiable temper, 
kind disposition, and distinguished excellence, in the discharge of 
all his duties, public and private. To his own family his loss has 
caused the deepest sorrow. This monument is inscribed, by his 
surviving children, to the memory of the best and most regretted 
of parents." 

" At the foot of this pillar are deposited the remains of Jane, 
daughter of Richard Langley, of Wykeham Abbey, Esq., and 
wife of Ralph Creyke, of Marton, Esq. She died 31st Dec, 
1794, aged 52; leaving issue two sons and seven daughters. 
She endured a long illness with that patient resignation which a 
firm trust in the goodness of the Almighty alone can give : and 
viewed the daily approaches of death with cheerful serenity and 
peace of mind, arising from a modest consciousness of not having 
neglected to improve the talent committed to her care. In the 
duties of a wife, a mother, and a friend, she was affectionate. 



118 APPENDIX. 

tender, and faithful. Her husband has dedicated this marble to 
the memory of her virtues, more highly honoured by being more 
familiarly known." 

In the north aisle are several fragments of grey slabs, which 
have had brasses. Many of these were brought from the floor 
of the chancel when it was lately repaired. Elizabeth, wife of 
H. Cowton, died 1694. 

In North Aisle of the Nave on a Pillar. 

" Near this place, in the same grave with his mother, lieth 
the body of Timothy Woolfe, citizen and merchant of London, 
son of Richard Woolfe, of Bridlington Key, by Hannah, his 
wife, daur. of John Rickaby, of Bridlington Key afore- 
said ; he departed this life March xx. A.D. 1735. aetat. 30. 
He left the produce of £500 to be distributed annually amongst 
the poor in and about this place, not exceeding the distance of 
five miles, at the discretion of the trustees and their executors for 
ever." 

John Hodgson, gent., Nov. 11, 1766. 

Thos. Myers de Allerthorpe, gent., obiit 21. Dec. 1718. — 
Arms much defaced. 

On a tabular stone near the font, the oldest date now re- 
maining, A.D. 1587, about 50 years after the Dissolution of 
the Monastery : See Plate IX. for the ancient sculpture of this 
stone. 

In South Aisle, on a Pillar. 

" Here lies, in hopes of a glorious resurrection, the body of 
John Greame, of Sewerby, Esq., who died Dec. 17, 1746, 
aged 83. He married Grace, daughter of Thos. Kitchingman 
of Leeds, Esq., by whom he had issue, who died in their infancy. 
He afterwards married Mary, daughter of Thomas Taylor, of 
Towthorp, Esq,, who died May 3, 1767, aged 85. They left 
issue four sons and seven daughters. His eldest son, John, pays 
this tribute of gratitude to the memory of his much esteemed 
and lamented parents." 



APPENDIX. 119 

" Near to this column are deposited the remains of John Greame, 
of Sewerby, Esq., who, after a long and tedious illness, which 
through a stedfast hope in the merits of his Redeemer he was 
enabled to bear with the most Christian fortitude, at length re- 
signed his soul into the hands of his Maker, 1798, Nov. 22. 
setat. 89 years. In 1756 he married Alicia Maria, youngest 
daughter of the late Wm. Spencer, of Cannon Hall, Esq., by 
whom he left no issue. He was a truly benevolent man, steady 
and sincere in his friendships, and his heart was ever open to 
alleviate the distresses of others. Alicia Maria Greame, relict of 
the above John Greame, Esq., died January 19, 1812, aged 
89 years, and lies interred under the same stone near the base of 
this column." 

Adolphus Moffat Bayard, Esq., died 1827. 

Ancient stone slab, with raised cross beautifully sculptured on 
it, but no inscription : it was found near the north porch, below 
the present floor of the church. 

"Sacred to the memory of Marmaduke Prickett, Esq., late of 
Bridlington, who departed this life October 21, 1809, aged 
76 years.* And of Frances, his wife, who departed this life 
February the 21st, 1805, aged 66 years: and was the only 
daughter of the Rev. W. Buck, Vicar of Church Fenton, in 
the West Riding of the county of York. They had issue three 
sons and five daughters. Marmaduke, their eldest son, has 
caused this marble to be engraven as a tribute of filial regard, 
and to perpetuate the memory of his much respected parents, 
whose remains are deposited below this monument." 

* The monuments of the father and grandfather of the above, are in 
the nave of the church of Kilham, near Burlington, with the following in- 
scriptions : " Sacred to the memory of Marm : Prickett, gent : late an at- 
torney in this town, and of Ann, his widow. He departed this life on the 
8th day of May, 1765, aged 65 years ; and she, on the 28th day of January, 
1789, aged 78 years, leaving three sons, and two daughters, who in memory 
of those much beloved parents, caused these monuments to be erected." 

" Infra jacent ossa Thomae Prickett et Luciae uxoris : Haec obiit 17 mo . 
Martii 1739, Annos nata 70 ta . Ille autem 18™. Martii 1741. aetatis 75 te . 
Postquain hujus Ecclesiae Annos 51 floruisset vicarius." He was a younger 
son of Josias Prickett, of Allerthorpe, Com : Ebor : 



120 APPENDIX. 

John Rickaby, Esq., died Oct. 16, 1785. 

John Rickaby, Esq., died Nov. 14, 1813. 

G. Bowes, Esq., Oct. 5, 1775. 

John Taylor, gent., Sept. bO, 1788. 

On a slab of grey marble, near the font, has been the effigy of 
a knight in armour, and four shields at the corners, but the 
brasses are gone. 



Armorial Bearings, chiefly taken from Monuments in Bridlington 
Priory Church, and the neighbouring village Churches. 

Bower. — Sable, a man's leg pierced with a broken arrow or, 
on a canton argent a tower gules. 

Boyle. — Party per bend crenelly, argent and gules. 

Boynton. — Argent, between three crescents, a fess gules. 

Buck. — Lozengy bendy of eight, or and azure, a canton 
ermine. 

Constable. — Quarterly gules and vaire, argent and azure, 
oyer all a bend or. 

Creyke. — (1) Party per fess argent and sable, a pale and 
three ravens proper counterchanged : quartering Essington, gules 
on a cross rlory argent five eaglets displayed, vert : and Arden, 
paly or and gules, on a chief argent three lozenges of the second : 
and impaling Langley, paly argent and vert. 

Creyke. — (2) impaling Denison, argent a bend between a uni- 
corn's head in chief, a cross crosslet fetchy in base, gules : quar- 
tering Sunderland, party per pale argent and azure, three lions 
passant counterchanged. 

Gaunt. — Barry of six or and azure, over all a bend gules. 

Greame. — (1) Or, on a chief sable, three escallop shells of the 
first : quartering Kitchingman argent, a chevron gules between 
three storks proper, two and one, and Taylor, of Towthorp 
argent, on a pale sable, three lions passajit guardant argent, a 
canton gules. 

Greame. — (2) impaling Spencer azure, a less ermine between 
six greyhounds heads erased proper. 



APPENDIX. 121 

Greame. — (3) quartering Yarburgh ; party per pale argent and 
azure, a chevron counterchanged between three chaplets ; and 
Broadley, argent a bend sable between two lions rampant. 

Harrington. — Sable, a fret argent, impaling Wilson, sable, 
a wolf langued rampant gardant, and in chief three mullets or. 

Hebeethwayte. — Argent, two pales azure, on a canton or, a 
mullet pierced sable. 

Hudson. — Party per chevron crenelly or and azure, three 
martlets counterchanged. 

Hustler. — Argent on a fesse azure, between two martlets 
sable, three fleur de lis or. &Jt * e*dt 

Prickett. — Or, on a cross quarter-"ft$ce.(i azure, four mascles 
of the first. 

Ramsay. — Argent, an eagle displayed sable, within a bordure 
gules. 

Rickaby. — Quarterly, first and third argent between three 
martlets sable, on a chevron engrailed azure three crescents of 
the first, second, and fourth or, two chevronels gules, and impal- 
ing Naylor, argent, on a bend cottised sable three covered 
cups or. 

Strickland. — Gules, a chevron or, between three crosses 
patee argent, on a canton ermine a stag's head erased, proper. 

Tyson. — Vert, three lions i-ampant argent. 



122 APPENDIX. 



Q. 



THE EPITAPH OF SIR MARMADUKE CONSTABLE, KNT., ON THE 
MONUMENT IN FLAMBOROUGH CHURCH. 

l^crc licth .ptarmatiuKc ©unstable of JFlarmborght linnght a 
SCHIjo matte attttento into JFrance for the right of the same 
$assctt mux toith Itnng lEtttoartte the Jouriht u 1 noble Unight ' 
&ntt also ruith noble King herre the scuinth of that name • 
3|c mas also at 15artoife at the toinnnng of the same <• 
3lntt by ling lEtttoartt chosn ©aptetT there first of ann one 
3ntt rctollitt 8c goucrnitt ther his tnme mithout blame 
33ut for all that as rjc se he lieth bnttcr this stone 

St brankistb fcltt toller the Itmtg of Scottrjs teas slawne e 
% then bcrmg of the age of thre score antt tenc 
32Rith the gotte ttufec ttf northcfolfcc w 1 torncw he ban farm 
ant) coragcln abancitt hnsclf emog other there & then 
5Ehe IKtg bcrmg t Jfrance truth grct nombre of "yglcsh me 
I§e nothymg bcttrmg his age ther but jcoptte hiT as on 
JKHlth his sonncs brothc saruantt anD kvjnnismcn 
But nolo as rjc sc he Itjcth unttcr this stone 



a He was bom during the reign of Henry VI. A. D. 1443. 

b Attended Henry IV. into France, cetat. 32, A. D. 1475. 

■ Attended Henry VII. into France, setat. 49, A. D. 1492. 

'' Appointed Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed on its capture by Ed- 
ward IV., A. D. 1482. 

e During the absence of Henry VIII., in France, Sir Marmaduke 
Constable, aetat. 70, accompanied Sir Edmund Howard, afterwards Duke of 
Norfolk, and jointly with that Nobleman commanded the third division of 
the English forces at the battle of Flodden Hill, in Brankiston Moor, where 
King James IV., of Scotland, was defeated and slain, with the flower of 
the Scotch nobility, A. D. 1513. 



APPENDIX. 123 



ISut note all thes trrmmpbes ar passeti $c set on sottc 

JFot all toortrtrj joyes tbe» until not long entfurc 

©bey arc sounc passed antj aroavj Bothe glytte 

3nti roho tbat puttitl) bis trust T thc~& call brT most usurc 

JFor toben Beth strifettb fje sparttb no creature ' 

"Nor geuitl) no toarnyg but takith the brj one $c one 

3nct nou) be abrjUytb goUts mercy & batl) no otljcr socurc 

JFor as ye se bym bere be lictb tintrer tbis stone 

E pray you) my feynsmc~Ioucrs anti frentiis all 

SEo pray to ottre Xotti libesu to hattc marcy af my sotoll 



Cop?/ of the Original Letter from Henry the Eighth to Sir M. Con- 
stable, now in the jwssession of the Rev. Charles Constable, of 
Wassand, in Holderness. 

" Henry tf&iEs. 

By the King. 
Trustye and well beloved we grete you well, and understand 
as well by the report of our right trustye Cousyn and Counsailer 
the Duke of Norfolk as otherwayes what acceptable service yee 
amongs other lately did unto us by your valiant towardness in 
the assisting of our said cousyn against our great enemy the late 
King of Scots. And how couragiously yee as a veray herty lov- 
ing knight acquited yourself for y e overthrow of the said King 
and distrustinge of his malice and power to our great honor and 



1 The exact period of his death is uncertain ; but, as we know the time 
when he was 70 years old, it may be supposed to have happened not later 
than A. D. 1530., when, if he lived so long, he would be 87 years old, and 
Henry VIII. at that time on the throne. He would then have lived within 
the reigns of six Kings, — Henry VI., Edward IV., Edward V., Richard III., 
Henry VI I., and Henry VIII. 



124 APPENDIX. 

the advancement of your no little fame and praise, for the which 
we have good cause to favour and thank you. And so we full 
hertily do. And assured yee may be that we shall in such 
effectual wise remember your said service in any your reasonable 
pursuits as ye shall have cause to thinke the same right well 
employed to your comfort and weal hereafter and specially be- 
cause yee (notwithstanding our license to you granted by reason 
of your great age and impotency to take your ease and liberty) 
did thus kindly and diligently to your payne serve us at this time, 
which requires longe thanks and remembrance accordingly. 
Given under our signet at our Castill of Wyndeshore the xxvi 
day of November 1514." 

Indorsed, 
" To our trustye and wellbeloved Knight for our body Mar- 
maduke Constable the elder (called the little.)" 



Bodl. MS. " Note that John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the 
Great Seale, was borne of obscure parentage* in the Towne of 
Flambrough, in Yorkshire, and is intombed att Westminster with 
this Epitaphe : — Jurisprudents, pietate, consilio, multisque aliis 
virtutibus insignis Johannes Puckering miles, a serenissima Elisa- 
betha Angliae Regina in secretius consilium ac summum magni 
Sigilli Angliae custodis munus ascitus, cum quatuor annis sin- 
gulari fide, et sequitate jus dixisset, placide in Domino obdor- 
miens, hie situs est. Vixit annos 52 obiit 30 Aprilis 1596. 

Causarum imperii et curarum munere fesso 
Vivere psena fuit, mors mihi somnus erat : 

Divitiae, Fasces, Legiones, Stemmata, Honores, 
Temporis haec spolium, prsedaque mortis atrae." 

* " Filius Robti. Puckering tenen s ex concessione Prioris de Bridlington 
C'apellam de Bempton.'' 



APPENDIX. 125 



II. 



Monument of Sir Martin de la See, in the chancel of Barmston 
Church. 

In 1430, [temp. Hen. VI.] the lordship, with the rectory of 
Barmston descended by an heiress to the family of de la See. 
Sir Martin de la See, knt., the issue of this marriage, left two 
daughters, coheiresses, of whom Margaret, the eldest, married 
Sir Henry Boynton, knt., and on the death of her father, which 
happened in the year 1497, she transferred the manor and rectory 
to the family of Boynton, in which they still continue. — Dade's 
History of Holderness. 

This monument is thus noticed in a Bodl. MS. dated 16th 
Nov., 1620. — " An ancient tombe of Alablaster, a man in armor 
thereon, no inscription, it came out of Brelington." 



Bodl. MS. — "barmston church — 16. Nov. 1620. 

On a table. 

In obitum dignissimi et colendissimi viri Francisci Boynton 
equitis defuncti. Qui obiit nono die Aprilis A . D°. 1617. 

BEFORD CHURCH. — 7. Oct. 1622. 

Hie jacet nobilis vir magister Thomas Tongo Rector hujus 
ecclesise, de sinistra parte matris siue, qui obiit xxni die mensis 
Septembris litera Dominicans D. An . Dm 1 . m°cccc°lxxii. 

Qui fuit.in vita Legum Bacalaureus almus 
Prudens, disertus, humilis, virtute repletus 
Clericos fovebat, illos gratanter habebat, 
Pauperes pascebat, honestos et diligebat. 



126 APPENDIX. 



HARPHAM CHURCH. 



The pictures in brasse : 

Hie jacet Thomas de Sancto Quintino armiger nuper Dominus 
de Harpham, qui obiit decimo octavo die mensis Julii An . Dni 
m°. cccc . quadragesimo quinto, cujus aie propitietur Deus. 
Amen. 

On a tomb under an arch : — Orate pro aia Do . Willi de 
Sancto Quintino, qui obiit Ano Dni m°. ccc°. xlix. et pro aia 
Dne Johanne uxoris eius qua? obiit Ano Dni m°. ccc° lxxxiv. 
pro quibus cotidie celebratur Missa Maria?. 

LOWTHORP CHURCH. 

On a marble, the portraiture in brasse, of a man and woman : — 
Hie jacet Georgius Salram Arm : qui obiit xvi°. die mensis 
Januarii An . D°. m°.cccc°xvii. et Elisabet ux. eius que obiit 
quarto die mensis Oct 8 . An . Dni. m.°cccc°. xvi. quorum anima- 
bus propitietur Deus. Amen." 



In the ruinated chancel of Lowthorp church is a very singular 
monument without inscription, containing the effigies of a man 
and woman carved in stone, with a tree between them, whose 
branches terminate in hearts. There is also a stone cross of ele- 
gant form which formerly stood in the church-yard. 

Harpham church is the burial place of the St. Quintin famfly, 
and is in excellent repair : the windows are filled with modern 
stained glass, beautifully executed, with the armorial bearings of 
the St. Quintins and their connexions. 

Burton Agnes church contains a chapel rilled with the ancient 
monuments of the Boynton family and their relations by marriage 



APPENDIX. 127 

— the Somervilles and Griffiths. Burton Agnes Hall is said to 
have been erected from a design by Inigo Jones : the gate-house 
is very handsome ; and the mansion is a fine specimen of the 
architecture of Elizabeth and James the First's time. 



INDEX. 



Abbots, p. 5 

Alban's, St. Abbey Gate of, 41 

Arms of the Priory now used by the 

town of Bridlington, 17 
Armorial Bearings from monuments 

in the church, &c. 119. 120 
Auburn church, 54 
Augustine Canons, 4 
called Black Canons, 5 

Bacon's Liber Regis, extract from, 

104 
Barmston church, 125 
Bayle-gate, or gate-house of Brid- 
lington Priory, 17. 39. 41—43 
Beford church, 125 
Bempton church, 53 
Benedictines, order of, 3. 4 
Bessingby chapel, 54 
Blomfield's (Bp.) Charge, extract 

from, 102 
Boyle, Earl of Burlington, pedigree 

of, 99 
Boynton church, 55 
Bridlington, situation of, 1 1 
Roman station at, 1 1 
ancient convent at, 12 
manor of, 12. 13. 33. 36 
port and harbour of, granted to 

the Priory, 20 
monastic buildings of, destroyed, 

34. 35 
rectory, 36. 37 
town charter, 98 
Bull of Pope Calixtus II., 15. 16 

Canons and monks, distinction of, 4 

Carnaby church, 54 

Carthusians, 4 

Charities, Bridlington, 106' 

Charter of foundation of Bridlington 

Priory, 13. 14 
Charters of Henry I., 14 — 17. 

of Henry II., 19 

of Stephen, 19 

of John, 22. 23 



Charters of Edward IV., 26 
Charters, various, 65. 83 
Churches appropriated to monaste- 
ries, 7. 8. 
their present depressed condition, 
8—10 
Churches appropriated to Bridling- 
ton Priory, 19 
Church of Bridlington Priory, 39— 
50, and 108—112 
towers of, 40 
conventual buildings south of the 

church, 41 
west front of, 44 
windows, 45 
north porch, 45. 46 
east end, 46 
ruined choir, 46. 47 
nave, 47 — 49 
font, 48 
pillars, 48 

monuments, 49. 113—120 
shrines, 50 
furniture of, 104 
Cistercians, 4 
Constable, Sir Marmaduke, 52. 122 

—124 
Curacy of Bridlington, terrier of, 
104 

Dane-geld, 84 

Danish tower at Flamborough, 1 1 

Dissolution of monasteries, 30. 31. 

97 
Dominicans, 4 
Doomsday-book, extract from, 63 

Ely convent gate, 41 

Fairs of Bridlington, 22. 23 
Filey church, 50. 51 
Flamborough church, 51 — 53 
Fountains abbey, 6. 7. 18 
Fraisthorpe chapel, 54 
Franciscanr., 4 



130 



Gant, Walter de, founder of Brid- 
lington Priory, 12 
Gilbert, his father, 12 
Gilbert, eldest son of the founder, 
20 
pedigree of, 64? 
Gates of the Priory of Bridlington, 

27 
Gilbertine Canons, 4 
Grammar-school, Bridlington, 105 
Grandmont, Monks of, 4 
Grant to John Stanhope, Esq., 109 
Gregory, Prior of Bridlington, 22. 

Grindall chapel, 54 

Harpham church, 126 

Hebblethwaite, Rev. Montagu, 53 

Hilda, St., 18 

Holy Sepulchre, Canons of, 4 

Howden church, 46 

Hudson, family of, 54 

Impropriators of the great tithes 

of Bridlington, 99 
Inventory of the buildings of the 

Priory of Bridlington, 6 
John de Bridlington, 24. 25 

Kaye's (Bp.) Charge, extract from, 
101. 102 

Kilham church, 56 

Kit-cote cell, Bridlington Priory, 17 

Knights Hospitallers and Tem- 
plars, 4 

Knitting-school, Bridlington, 106 

Langtoft, Peter of, 21- 
Lowthorp church, 126 

Manuscripts, Gale's, 93 

Torr's, 94 

Harleian, 94 

Lansdoyvne, 95 
Marriage, form of, during the Great 

Rebellion, 40 
Monastic institutions, origin of, 2 



Monastic offices, 5 
buildings, 6 

National School, Bridlington, 10C 
Nave of Bridlington Priory Church 

always used for worship by the 

parishioners, 17 
Notitia Monastica, extract from, 59 

—62 

Ogle, family of, 53 

Perpetual curates of Bridlington, 
85 

Peter of Langtoft, 24. 88 

Pilgrimage of grace, 33 

Possessions of Bridlington Priory, 
18. 19. 29. 33. 96 

Praecentor, office of, 5 

Praemonstratensian Canons, 4 

Prior, office of, 5 

Priors of Bridlington, the most re- 
markable, 20—28. 85 

Ramsay, Earl of Holderness, grant 

to, 101 
Regulars and Seculars, distinction 

of, 2 
Reighton church, 56 
Ripley, Sir George, 28. 90—93 
Robert the Scribe, 20—22. 86 
Robert Brystwyk, 27> p ■ 
Robert Danby, 28 > rnois 
Rudston church, 56 

See de la, Sir Martin, 125 
Selby abbey, 50 
Speeton chapel, 53 
Strickland, family of. 55 

Whitby abbey, 7- 18 
Wikeman, Prior, 20 
William de Newbold, 26 
William of Newhurgh, 23. 24. 88 
William de Wode, 31—33. 



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